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 *tions and museums, but this chapter is perhaps already too long and we must be content to illustrate five most interesting examples of visors which are preserved in the Rotunda Museum at Woolwich (Fig. 408).

Visor of an Italian salade, about 1470 Visor of an Italian salade, about 1470 Visor of an Italian salade, about 1470 Visor of a salade, German type, about 1470-80 Visor of a salade, German type, about 1460-70

All in the Museum of the Rotunda, Woolwich

We believe that the salade will ever be the favourite head-piece of the armour enthusiast, for it was in use during the period in which the art of the armourer was at its zenith both as regards utility and refinement of decoration.