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 still to be seen. The Italians, however, remained constant to a slightly modified Celata type. It was a comparatively easy task to deal with the Italian Celata and the German Schalern, as there was little variation in their forms; but in discussing the "French" type greater difficulties are encountered, many varying shapes being met with, all of which must be placed under the same general head. We will sub-divide this class into three divisions: those provided with movable visors and with or without laminated tail-pieces: those fashioned from a single piece: and lastly and latest in date those in which the elaboration of the parts almost converts the salade into a close helmet of the armet type. To simplify our subject, and to deal with each of these varieties entirely separately, and at the same time to keep up anything like a chronological order in our description of existing pieces, is quite impossible; inasmuch as the types overlapped one another, and were to a great extent contemporary. For instance, a simple salade forged from one piece may date late in the XVth century; while a visored example may be found of an earlier period, and vice versa.

(a) Salade, North Italian, about 1470. (It would appear that the face opening in this helmet has been altered, probably in contemporary times)

(b) Salade, Italian, about 1480. (c) Salade, North Italian, about 1470

All in the National Germanic Museum, Nuremberg

We shall first mention the visored tailed salade, because we are able to