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• ences, one (Fig. 385) having the visor attached on the hinge principle of

the XVth century bascinets or armets.

Fig. 385. Salade

North Italian, about 1500. It will be noted that the visor could be removed on the hinge-and-pin principle of the XVth century armet and earlier bascinet H 45, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

Of the latest and most complete form of salade, Nos. 79, 80, 82, and 87 are the examples to be seen in the Wallace Collection; but as three of these are of German origin we shall refer to them later. In the Windsor armoury is a head-piece somewhat made up, but it has a genuine visor of bellows form. It is to be seen on a suit (No. 56 in the 1902 Catalogue) partly of modern manufacture, which was sent from the Tower of London to Windsor Castle in 1901 merely for the purpose of filling an empty bracket on the grand staircase of the Castle. In the Tower collection this latest form of salade is not represented. Of the Wallace examples No. 80 (Fig. 386) is the finest and most complete. The skull-piece is of finely moulded keel form, reinforced in the front. A hinged tail-piece completes the back, the lower border of which is turned upwards. The visor may be compared to the bellows type with four ridges, and is of the Maximilian order, pierced with thirty-four circular holes for ventilation. The ocularium is formed by the space between the edge of the skull-piece and the top of the visor. The probable date of this complete salade, which appears to be North Italian in origin, is about 1480 to 1500. It came from the collection of the Comte de Nieuwerkerke. There are other good Italian examples, which might be illustrated, in the collection of Prince Ladislaus