Sallet Question

Sir Crispin · Post by **Sir Crispin** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:07 pm

I'm having the bars pulled off my sallet and replaced with a hinged period visor. It is a German sallet with a rigid (non-articulated) tail.

My question is this:
For the visor should it have the peaked brow peice or simply the face plate? Was it a regional thing?

Thanks in advance.

RalphS · Post by **RalphS** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:39 pm

It seems both were used. If you have a nice brow line on the existing helmet, you can add a faceplate, otherwise you can add the full visor. Unless you like both the peaked brow plate, and the faceplate, in which case you can add a separate brow reinforcement plate an the faceplate. It seems all these things were done in those days.

Sir Crispin · Post by **Sir Crispin** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:22 pm

I saw a lot of variety as well. I wasn't sure if there was a connection between the styles that I was missing.

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:38 pm

German salets tended to be longer in relation to their heighth. Italian salets tended to be taller in relation to their length. I think that salets without separate visors tended to be German, but I'm not positive about that.