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 helmet formerly in the collection of Herr Franz Thill of Vienna, and now in that of Prince Ladislaus Odescalchi, a specimen that leaves nothing to be desired either as regards form or condition (Fig. 378). Rarer still are those salades of which the laminated tail-plates give a certain play to the extended neck covering. The Imperial Armoury of Vienna exhibits such salades upon the suits of Sigismund "The Wealthy" of the Tyrol, in a complete form (see vol. i, Fig. 244); while the National Bavarian Museum of Munich contains a particularly representative example, which we illustrate (Fig. 379). It is a superb specimen, elaborate and complete in construction, and belonging to the last quarter of the XVth century. Unfortunately in the illustration the laminated plates on the tail-piece are not clearly defined. In the National Germanic Museum of Nuremberg there is a fine salade with a tail-piece of five laminated plates and a large ample visor; it bears the Nuremberg guild mark (Fig. 380). A salade of much the same type is to be seen in the Rotunda at Woolwich (Fig. 380a).

German, about 1480. National Germanic Museum, Nuremberg

380a.

The Rotunda Museum, Woolwich

The last and most complete variety of the salade helmet reverts in the formation of its skull-piece to that of the Italian Celata type, amplified with a very protective visor and often with reinforced forehead plates, such as are seen on the armet or close helmet of the time. However, unlike the Italian Celata, the salade in its final form, though possibly originating in Italy, was not used exclusively by Italians,