. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . VENETIAN SALADE (IV, 20). 1 Several salades of this type were found in the Castle of Chalcis in 1840 ; they were part of a store ofannour left by the Venetians at the fall of the castle in 1470, and can therefore be dated withcertainty {vide Archceologia, Vol. LXII). CLASS IV : HELMS AND HELMETS. 175. ARMET (IV, 23). Armets and Close Helmets. 21. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with projecting visor androped crest. The edge of the beavor and the lower edge of the helmet are both roped, the latter with very boldcabling. Engraved in G
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . VENETIAN SALADE (IV, 20). 1 Several salades of this type were found in the Castle of Chalcis in 1840 ; they were part of a store ofannour left by the Venetians at the fall of the castle in 1470, and can therefore be dated withcertainty {vide Archceologia, Vol. LXII). CLASS IV : HELMS AND HELMETS. 175. ARMET (IV, 23). Armets and Close Helmets. 21. Armet (Early XVIth Century), with projecting visor androped crest. The edge of the beavor and the lower edge of the helmet are both roped, the latter with very boldcabling. Engraved in Groses MilitaryAntiquities, H, Plates 3 and , 61b. 120Z. 22. Mask Helmet, given by theEmperor Maximilian I to Henry VIII (Plate XX). The skull is that of a finearmet, with discs of engraving over the large rams horns of iron, realisticallytreated, are fixed to the brow. In place ofa visor there is a well-forged human mask,with engraving over the eyebrows and onthe cheeks. This does not appear to belong to the skull-piece, and has beencut to fit it. A pair of brass spectacles was riveted on to the cheeks inthe seventeenth century. The whole was originally silvered, but during theeighteenth century, possibly earlier, it was painted, the helmet blue, the maskflesh colour and the horns and spectacles yellow and gold. About three yearsago the blu
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