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 an excellent explanatory drawing of this elaborate mechanism, and illustrates a bevor of metal worn beneath the exterior wooden defence (Fig. 404). There were many variations of these mechanical jousting contrivances which are most accurately illustrated in Burgkmair's "Triumph."

In the Musée d'Artillerie (Nos. H 50 and 51) are two very beautiful salades of the Maximilian square-tailed order (Figs. 405 and 406). The former, which is finely fluted, has the applied roping round its lower edge, which in the usual manner ceases in front, though the design of the cable is brought out in flat chasing. Six aiglette holes are on either side of the skull-piece. Riveted to the comb is the fork-like attachment that held the additional forehead plates of which we have already spoken. The second salade (Fig. 406), from which, by the way, the additional forehead plates are also missing, is of exactly the same construction, but far more elaborate in its enrichment. Its ornamentation may be said to represent a slashed and cut cloth cap drawn over a coif of mail. This effect is obtained by grooves, which represent the slashing, and by embossing the cuts, both grooves and cuts being accurately etched in imitation of chain mail showing through the interstices of some textile material. About the centre of this fine helmet is deeply etched a band of scroll ornaments. Other museums on the