The Armour Archive

brunoG

Carlo's books are possibly the best investment one can make in this field. I have them all and they have the honour place in my home library. I hope to be able to acquire some more just for speculation when my financial situation improves.

brunoG

I have a fine german sallet and a good bevor, both need lining which be made in a totally historical fashion. Being an hater of needlework, I dare ask who knows a source for custom linings. Eastern european sources or american sources preferred for change reasons, but western euros sources accepted ...

brunoG

MJBlazek wrote:Try zBook 2 of Froissart's Chronicles :The marriage of Charles VI to Isabella of Bavaria

TX. Is it online?

brunoG

Thomas Powers wrote:From what country? Do you want the civil service with the stamping of the documents with the Notary or a the Wedding Mass?

Country would be a nordic country, i.e. Sweden, Denmark, Norway or Iceland.

It's for a short novel ... fingers crossed

brunoG

I need to recreate as many elements as I can for a XV century marriage. The ceremony, the gestures, the dress code for both bride and groom etc. The more elements I can get the better.

Any suggestion for online or offline reading is welcome.

brunoG

Hugo, could you pleas tell us about your training in repousse work? Are you self trained or did you learn from a master? Are there any books/websites that deal with the matter?

brunoG

I have had the privilege to interview Carlo in Milan last saturday. He is a jovial man, unassuming and warm. Unsurpisingly, given the quality of his work, he has a very sharp mind. The book. His last work is a masterwork. Having practiced photography since my early teens I can say that he rivals wit...

brunoG

Tobias Capwell's book on this very topic should be available within the year. It will be a distillation of his 1100 page opus on armour in the English style, which was his PhD dissertation. Its quite a resource if you can your hands on the thesis. 8) The book should be awesome too. What is the titl...

brunoG

Wow, I don't know how much work it was to add this (nicely done) corrosion, but that's quite the profit margin... Isn't East Prussia polish territory now, Andreas? In such case the provenance would be Poland. But I doubt the seller to be a bona fide buyer of a poilsh fake, as he answered to me deny...

brunoG

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:
Effingham wrote:So who's gonna e-mail e-bay about this one?
How about you?

If you actually get them to respond, tell us how you did it.

I emailed the seller the Kult of Athena helm's link.

Answer from the vendor:

Hello

Somewhat similar not same .

brunoG

There is also a rare spangenhelm for sale on the very same bay. Will somebody find its indian perfect match? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Medieval-Helmet-Spangen-Nasal-good-Quality-/320775139264?_trksid=p4340.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUA%26otn%3D5%26pmod%3D250899357852%26ps%3D63#ht...

brunoG

As always, it depends. I assume you are making a breastplate like the several in Churburg or in the Tower that came from Churburg (I know, Leeds - I am old) - a 2 piece breast with the bottom riveted to the top. Going to do the one with the face embossed into it? It is so ugly, but still tempting. ...

brunoG

I'm planning to try my first XV century breastplate, how could I take measurements in order to make a pattern for it?

I'm also still a little bit overweight, but dieting. Should I wait or i would be non important to plan my breastplate now?

brunoG

Yesterday I was admitted to the Marzoli's lab. I examined a cuirass, a big one. It didn't fit me by width for roughly 30%, by height for a ten percent. It was one of the bigger they had.. I'm 167, 90 kilos, muscled and a bit overweight ok. The other ones would clearly fit only children around ten ye...

brunoG

That's not very tall in fact, this pairs with down the Alps italians being even smaller (and I'm speakinga also in body frame). Its the AVERAGE height! Todays Average is not much more.[/quote] You must be joking . Thats the italian average height. You are much taller tha the italians, or I happen t...

brunoG

Odd to choose an Aristocrat in a competition for a Bolshevik Army Uniform and how could they have made all this so quickly? The Story was taught in Soviet Schools, guess the documentation was destroyed? Stalin was more a socialist/nationalist than a pure marxist. His rethoric used patriotism often ...

brunoG

There is a research from the state University Ohio which analysed thousand of Skelletons fom Dark Ages to modern times. The average height in the late Middle Ages was 1,73 m! Until 17. Century it was decreased to 1,67 m. It is a typical Misconception that medieval people was small. In Nuremberg in ...

brunoG

The armor we have here at Marzoli in most cases would only fit twelve ears boys. Only a few examples are for robust people who could be compared to modern locals The restorer told me that when he had to fit two living models with venetian cernide armour of the XVI century (morion style infantry .) h...

brunoG

Isn't it early soviet style, just civil war? That's Budjenny's cavalry for that war. Stalin was ever seen with a visor cap. It was made up just after the revolution -- the winner of a nationwide contest to redesign the Russian uniform. Originaly called the Bogatirka - after Bogatir (knight) - the i...

brunoG

Bernhart von Bruck wrote:Chello!

I have one as well, but rarely wear it. My reenactment unit mostly does late war. However, we are thinking about Finnish War.

Isn't it early soviet style, just civil war?

That's Budjenny's cavalry for that war. Stalin was ever seen with a visor cap.

brunoG

Polish street sellers have quite alot for sale here but they are all modern replicas, possibly not even russian amde.

brunoG

I am looking for surnames that would have been found in Sicily during the Norman occupation. Does anyone have any texts/sites they can lead me towards? Common people didn't have surnames then, only personal names. The list you have been given is iteresting. Nobility was indicated by the personal na...

brunoG

To confuse things further, flattened wire can have an oval section, or be half-round or "D" sectioned with the rounded part in back. I have seen square wire as well, pretty tight, with collars having rings around two thirds in diameter with respect to the rest of the garment. (such collar rings wer...

brunoG

great and great resolution too.

How many hours to make such an helm?

brunoG

the works of Dr. Stefan Maeder are very interesting.

http://www.schwertbruecken.de/english/starte.htm

European smiths could do well advanced things in teh late roman age, early

read this especially â€¢Damasconfusion and Nanowires

His book advertised in news would be spot on topic.

brunoG

Funny but still not artistic as it doesn't put forward any meaning, not to mention a beautiful one. Very good for advertisement though.

brunoG

During the rout of 1917 in WW1 the fleeing italian army crossed the river Piave in a dantesque scene. Most people couldn't swim properly and the river was swollen, so they drowned. Elders' and family accounts are of corpses being recovered by locals after kilometers. I have heard this story many tim...

brunoG

MJBlazek wrote:I would actually love to see if anybody has a better view of the St. George part of the fresco:

http://www.scaligeri.com/uploads/images ... aliere.jpg

brunoG

The first ones could be Magyar warriors, people of Eastern European descent. Just look at the recurves and the long pointed hats. I have pics of two of such helmets in a local collection. it is Avio, a castle interesting for the history of the Della Scala Lords of Verona. Other interesting pics here...

brunoG

ferreis manicis armillatus armillatus: provided with iron rings or bracelets and ferreis manicis = with (plural) iron manicae = sleeves or manacles or hamdcuffs or soldiers gauntlets or gladiator gauntlets. Complicated, if not considering that armillatus means "braceleted" with iron devices made in...

brunoG

In clipeo nihil apparuit nisi ferrum

In the shield nothing appeared but iron.

Probably an heavily reinforced shield, the description is clearly hagiography: probably iron reinforcements were so strong that their appearance made secondary the non metallic under layers.

brunoG

Thanks. Reproducing one would require a very big forge, capable of welding heat in large areas, i guess.

I ever thought of replicating a smaller one but I guess no testing facility would accept it for proofing.

Forge welded stuff is safe only when making blades, at most you get a broken blade.

brunoG

Ok official data for the chapel: described in Aroldi, Armi e armature italiane fino al VIII secolo, 33.5 cm width (I assume diameter) 20 cm tall.

brunoG

Looking it just from a side doesn't tell a lot, but my doubt are that it appear that only 8 rivets connected the "brim" with the upper plate, to me they are too few for an helm. But if seen from above is oval, and can fit a human head, then it could be a helm. it is in a reputed, if old , collectio...

brunoG

A skullcap with likely battle damage (mace footprint?)

http://bghomofaber.googlepages.com/catepiscina058.jpg

a restored one

http://bghomofaber.googlepages.com/catepiscina047.jpg

Re: Hans Prunner publications - stocks running low!

Who sells historical helmet and bevor liners?

Re: Recreating a XV century high level marriage

Re: Recreating a XV century high level marriage

Recreating a XV century high level marriage

Re: Helm for Ajax...Progress pics... 11/29/11

Re: Carlo Paggiarrino went to Leeds and all I got was...

Re: What makes armour "English" in character?

Re: "Unearthed" sugarloaf on eBay- forgery?

Re: "Unearthed" sugarloaf on eBay- forgery?

Re: "Unearthed" sugarloaf on eBay- forgery?

Measurements to pattern- late XV century infantry brestplate

Re: Silician-Norman Surnames