The Armour Archive

Jason Grimes

Hi Karl, Sorry, my mistake. Is it this one here that you sent me? m Too bad his sash covers the breastplate, but I agree with you that this does not appear to be a B&W suit. The curved embossing at the top of the breast plate was very popular at this time but it is not limited to just B&W armour. He...

Jason Grimes

I can't remember, didn't the Mary Rose sink in around 1549? At least in German woodcuts I have seen many examples of guys, not on horses, wearing high boots. I don't know how well this would translate over to England though. There are a lot of trades were you would want to wear boots, like hunting o...

Jason Grimes

I have many woodcuts from The Triumph on but I'm not recognizing any raised sections that might be this two-tone style. I would not mind you all showing me that I'm wrong since I do like the look. Hi Karl, The artwork in "The Triumph" was done in around 1516, many years before the B&W armour style ...

Jason Grimes

We are having a similar discution over on Arador about B&W armour and the Landsknechten. I'm yet unconvienced that the Landsknecht wore B&W, in my research so far it looks that B&W was mostly used by city and town militias. Many B&W helmets and other pieces of the armour are embossed with the crest ...

Jason Grimes

Alcyoneus, You tease!! Oh why do I always have to live, not hundred, but thousands of miles away from all the cool events.

*sigh*

Jason Grimes

*LOL*

Konstantin, I didn't even notice that, too funny. A horse in a constant state of terror.

Jason Grimes

Hi Karl,

Here is the woodcut, just click on the image to get the full-resolution picture. Hope this helps,

http://www.grimmarmoury.com/gallery/vie ... d=scan0001

Could you see a hot ember landing on the horse's rump?

Jason Grimes

Giano - Thanks, great information. How would you rate "Handbuch der MÃ¯Â¿Â½nzkunde und des Geldwesens in Deutschland"? Looks like a couple of books I'm going to have to think about getting. Now if I could only read German. Karl - I will see about scanning it in at that resolution. It will be large t...

Jason Grimes

Karl Helweg wrote:Jason, I also have a later print of a Brandmeister from Friedrich Blau's Die deutschen Landsknechte but not the Rogg one that you mentioned. Can you please post or e-mail me a copy sometime?

Sure, what resolution would you like?

Jason Grimes

Hi Robert, I was thinking the Mark as 13s/4d, two-thirds of Ã‚Â£1 Look here and go to the list by country and select Germany. m This will give you a real good impression just how convoluted German currency has been for the last 500 years. According to the site in 1871, one Mark = 0.333 Thalar, but a...

Jason Grimes

Very nice, beautiful work!! On the next one you need to take pictures on the helmet in progress (if you haven't on this one anyway).

Jason Grimes

Weirdly enough, none of the various incarnations of this particular document seems to mention DoppelsÃ¯Â¿Â½ldner. Then again, I have yet to see the original... (Don't writers learn footnoting any more, dammit!?) Hi Giano, Yes, doppelsoldners, at least to me, are still in a kind of grey area. I have...

Jason Grimes

Has anyone found any good pay rate for the Brandmeister ? I know someone interested in this. Hi Karl, I did some looking in the Osprey "Landsknecht Soldier" but it wasn't very helpfull. I also looked in "Landsknechte und ReislÃƒÂ¤ufer: Bilder vom Soldaten" by Matthias Rogg but all he had on the Bra...

Jason Grimes

Kel Rekuta wrote:BTW, hadn't visited your gallery site for quite a while. Nice update, very classy.

Thanks, as always a work in progress.

Jason Grimes

RenJunkie wrote:Holy shit, those are great!!! Any idea where those are residing at?

Thanks
Christopher

Hi Christopher,

They currently reside in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.

Jason Grimes

Hi Thomas,

That is more of a lobster-tail pot then a morion. The closest pic that I have is a leather cabasset that is late 16th century.

http://www.grimmarmoury.com/gallery/vie ... erHelm16_1

And here is another one that is more of a chapel-de-leather...

http://www.grimmarmoury.com/gallery/vie ... erHelm16_2

Hope this helps,

Jason Grimes

Hi Giano, you just missed one pay type. That of the veteran soldier or dopplesoldnier, which was 8 guilder/Florin/Thaler. Thanks Giano, Just what I was looking for. Next question. What is the Florin worth at the time? ie How many florins in the Mark, How many pennies/stuivers to the florin how many ...

Jason Grimes

Thanks Ernst,

Given the style of the art it was difficult to see exactly what kind of armour was being represented. Thank you for the reference too.

Jason Grimes

Hi spanish_hospitaller, Let me echo James' sentiment, I would like to see the pictures as well. Please don't take my comments as being disrespectful. Armour in particular follows very specific trends and styles. Spain in this period is very much like the rest of Europe and by extension the colonies ...

Jason Grimes

Hi spanish_hospitaller, Um, sorry, but the examples you have posted are not very good ones to make your point. Here is a painting by Spanish artist Pedro BERRUGUETE of heritics being burned at a Auto-de-fe that was painted in 1490. Notice the soldiers wearing skull caps and chapel-de-fers. Notice al...

Jason Grimes

Hi MilleniumLancelot, Not too sure about the garb, but the armour that the other gentlemen have posted is more late 16th century then the 1490 to 1500 time period. As Alcyoneus posted brigandines and mail were popular as well as jacks. This type of simple skull cap was very popular for lower ranking...

Jason Grimes

Hew wrote:Timothy_D_Finkas - Do you know where that image is from? (Title, Artist if known.) It's a great one.

Hi Hew,

It's from the Karlsruher alter. I'm not sure if the artist is known or not, I need to check on it. If I remember correctly it dates from about 1450.

Jason Grimes

I've got to learn to trust my eye more. That is so true, I have spent I don't know how many hours looking at pictures of that helmet trying to figure out how the thing worked and what the missing pieces might have looked like. Effingham - Let us know how you really feel. Just kidding, I feel the sa...

Jason Grimes

This painting was done by Hurbert and Jan van Eyke right around 1432. The long sleeves as near as I can tell were fairly short lived, from about 1420 to about 1445 or so. They come in all sorts of lengths from the extreme end (the one shown) to much shorter (like the guy right next to himi). Hope th...

Jason Grimes

Here is a picture of a suit of Kastenbrust armour that was made by Mac, although this is not what a early 15th century foot soldier would have worn. m Here is a picture that shows more of a common foot soldier wearing Kastenbrust armour. Take a look at the guy who is leading Christ by the rope.. m H...

Jason Grimes

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/morgan/armour.zip m the art is just a bunch of misc pics of various art that I took shots of at the met back in October 2000, I believe. (Not going back to look at the start of this thread.) These zip files have been on my archive space for a long time. Enjoy e...

Jason Grimes

did the Scottish or English ever adopt any landsknect type armor? I'm not sure about the Scottish, but the English would have. There were only a few places to purchase large quantities of armour so the styles were very similar. Henry VIII purchased a whole pile of armour from the mainland Europe fo...

Jason Grimes

if i were you i'd learn the Row Expansion, using Idle rings, it's easy and it's the correct way to do it. I guess it depends on what your goal is. If you want to make a correct historical piece from the 14th to 16th centurys then no it's not the correct way to do it. There is a picture in Stone's g...

Jason Grimes

Hi Konstantin, It would appear at first that the seams would show a lot, but they don't very much. It depends on a lot of factors. Like the type of seam, the size of your links, and the thickness of the wire. Lucz may do the same as I do (please let me know Lucz if your method is different), I start...

Jason Grimes

Hi Lucz, Your idea is correct, that is how they did it, at least in the late 15th and early 16th century. I made mine with four trapezoids and three rectangles plus a collar rectangle. If you can, get a hold of a copy of Herbert Westpfahl's "Die Zweihandschwerter und Ringpanzer der Hornschen Schlach...

Jason Grimes

Yep they are the ones, thanks Gregory.

Jason Grimes

From what I remember Babylonian armour consisted of a crude helmet made of bronze (several have been found) and a bronze scale cloak or cape.

Jason Grimes

Again very nice work. Can I put thes pictures on my site too?

Jason Grimes

Awesome as usual Patrick. Can I put the pics up on my site?? Pretty please.

Jason Grimes

I was lucky in that my step father worked in a auto-body shop, so I had lots of car doors and hoods to use. As far as tools, I had a ball-pein hammer, a file, tin-snips, nails for punching holes, and some heavy gauge copper wire to make rivets out of. Oh, and a stump. I still have some of the armour...

Re: Are we talking about the same thing?

Re: Brandmeister

Re: pay rates

Re: leather chapel

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