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 the salade. When the Baron de Cosson described this salade in "Ancient Helmets and Mail" (1881), he stated that he considered it of earlier date than the preceding type of salade. In shape it approaches more nearly the chapel-de-fer with a slit in it, which may have suggested the origin of this "tailed" or French type. The possible date of this salade is from about 1440. Like much of the XVth century armour in the Rotunda, it is stated to have come from the Isle of Rhodes.

In the Rotunda, Woolwich

Of about 1460-1500 In the Rotunda, Woolwich

From the same source, the Museum of Artillery also acquired two other salades; one of unique form (Fig. 370), which has the rivets for the lining and chin straps nearly flush with the outside. There is no ridge. Some experts have attributed a Flemish origin to it, but there is no representation of it on any monument to support this view. The other (Fig. 372) is a fine example, part of the tail has received a blow and is turned up, and the rivets are to be specially noticed.

Examples of these salades are constantly to be met with represented on the sculpture of the period. One can be seen on that fine carved wood statuette in the late Baron Ferdinand Rothschild bequest to the British Museum which Sir Hercules Read describes as German, but which in our opinion might easily be Northern French (Fig. 371).

A rather different type of salade, but one possibly as early as any of the tailed order that we have described, is a fine little helmet in the Wallace Collection (Fig. 373). This is a splendid specimen, retaining its original russet