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 of the XVth century. An Italian salade almost similar to No. 75 is No. 86 (Fig. 336), also of the classic type, having a finely moulded skull-piece with a keel of acute section, perforated with a hole for the attachment of the crest. The face-opening, formed as the letter T, is unlike the two just described, being quite rectangular; around the margin has been riveted a reinforcing band

(now missing) as in the case of No. 75. The armourer's mark upon this helmet, which appears twice at the back of the skull, is one akin to that used by the Missaglia of Milan. The surface of this salade is now painted. The other two salades of the Italian order in the Wallace Collection are Nos. 30 and 53. The former, crudely fashioned and of indifferent workmanship, was doubtless the helmet of an archer. The latter (Fig. 337), also an archer's