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I would suspect they're cuisses:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=179664

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Yeah, the Pembridge.

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Or diamond shaped -

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Didn't notice any varnish, but there are both painted and black leather chanfrons. j cum picero et croparo de platis de corio, ij de corio depicto cum consimilis picero et croparo de corio de setta....j de corio depicto cum j capite domicelle, j de corio nigro ligato cum cupro deaurato, A stricken l...

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There's varnish:
Raoul de Nesles' inventory of armor (obit. 1302, Courtrai) has a varnished bascinet
11. pointée, ii testieres de soie a cheval, iii chapiaus de Montauban, iii hiaumes,et i baehinet vernicié viii l. xvi s.

Pine sap and linseed oil, with some lampblack for color?

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Looks more like a woozle to me. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2481749.stm But art historians are not convinced the water-damaged depiction is a mouse at all. The figure is portrayed kneeling in front of a depiction of St Christopher. Historians say the creature may in fact be a weasel, wh...

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The weirdest testiers I've ever seen. What's going on in Navarre?

Pamplona Bible, UBA Cod.I.2.4.15, fo.115v, c. 1200, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
http://digital.bib-bvb.de/webclient/Del ... id=6994824

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From My Armoury posting: Today I have passed the 30,000 mark of uploaded photos to my Flickr album ‘Arms and Armour’. The album shows collections of over 130 museums, as well as museum storages and special exhibitions of arms and armour. I still have to upload another 2,500. So in the not too distan...

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This was the source I used earlier for the Norwich Rolls, Rev, Hudson, beginning on p.263. https://books.google.com/books?id=jWVIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11&dq=Rev.+William+Hudson+Norwich+Militia+in+the+14th+century&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAmoVChMIn6j2mY7qxwIVCMyACh1AOwpl#v=onepage&q=Rev.%20William%20Hudson%20...

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Photos, or it didn't happen.

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Maybe it's just a fashion thing like black shoes and belts. The indenture for issues to Thomas Snetesham for the fleet in 1337 included 325 bacinets (for which there were 262 aventails, as mentioned above under mail, p. 34), 167 pairs of plates, thirteen aketons of plates, 120 pairs of rerebraces of...

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Why presume the cuisse is hardened leather rather than a decorative textile gamboissed construction?

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http://wellcomelibrary.org/actual/b1968 ... ddb0c9/jp2

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Another potential candidate showing the breast should be pieced, and not cut tabard-style.

: Cambridge MS Mm.5.31 fo.139r.jpg (96.34 KiB) Viewed 370 times

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Interesting old thread:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=131492

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What makes black jacks waterproof, and black? I was struck in Richardson's thesis how many of the leather bracers are described as black, like the extant rerebrace at the British Museum.

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You could always link this thread to their Pinterest comments.

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Looks like a row of rivets to me:
http://effigiesandbrasses.com/718/977/

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I always wondered a couple things about this rerebrace pattern: (1) Does the "flap" extend around the front or back of the arm? (2) How do these interact with the shoulder (at the top end) and elbow armor (at the bottom end)? Are they large enough to underlap the other armor? The "flap" goes forwar...

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14th century body bag. Well, that's a new one.

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The designated ring goes through three below it.

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Raoul de Nesles' inventory of armor (obit. 1302, Courtrai) has a varnished bascinet; however, it doesn't say or suggest that the varnish is internal.
11. pointée, ii testieres de soie a cheval, iii chapiaus de Montauban, iii hiaumes, et i baehinet vernicié viii l. xvi s.

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Some early and medieval mail http://www.livinghistory.cz/node/426 Is that a high collar on that Gammertingen drawing? You always find the interesting stuff, Len. :) German Wiki gives it as Alamannic, 6th century (c. 570), of noble status, with a length of 98cm, and width of 63 cm. Of course the hel...

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Impressions, indentations, and rust stains appear to be all that's left of the iron, though the copper-alloy rivet appears to be intact. The strapping width is extrapolated based on both the sizr of the slit, and the length of the stitching which secured it. Google translate handles Lithuanian, thou...

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Per the article, p.47, the analysis indicates the leather was from a bovine hide in the shoulder region, with a length of 255 mm, width of 200 mm, thickness - about 3 mm (about 8 oz.). They say the brittleness suggests it was water hardened. (p. 48) The leather strap was 22mm wide, and fastened by s...

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If you're looking to do Viking era mail, most of the art shows half sleeves on the byrnie. (OE byrne, ON brynja, OF broigne - never have figured out how we English-speakers got the y in front of the r.)

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Gjermundbu is the Viking age mail. At least you won't have to make so much of it.

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J. Salazar wrote: Then hopefully within a month I can start on my first shirt, perhaps something with the tailoring of the Gjermundbu shirt.

Perhaps you should find a better exemplar.

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There is no evidence from either the surviving vambraces or this rerebrace that they attach internal plates. I suspect most people will simply shrug them off as fashion.

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Dan,
Perhaps archers carried both flight arrows and heavier arrows into battle, for engaging the enemy at various distances. M193 and M855 can both be fired from the same weapon.

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I found a number of things about that list surprising.... ---The shear magnitude of the finds. ---The amount of mail that had some copper alloy decoration. ---The number of coifs that had some textile associated. ---The number of coifs that had been pitched into the grave that were not on someone's...

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The reconstruction compared with the British Museum black leather rerebrace:

: Vilnius Rerebrace-2.jpg (77.08 KiB) Viewed 18 times

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I have no idea. :oops: I was clearing files, sending pics to Galfrid, and found a pdf download. Usually I tag source, but... Since I had the Lithuanian title, authors, and a link in the paper itself, it was easy enough to back track. Academia.edu feed, perhaps? I'll try to do better next time. Honest.

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I know the Baltic splinted vambraces were discussed a few years ago. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=143600 Similar construction with studs between the external splints (now corroded away). Now we have a splint rerebrace from the lower castle in Vilnius: Paulius Bugys and ...

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Perhaps a pisan rather than a standard, depending on your definitions, though the collar is made of heavier wire: Big image: http://catview.historiska.se/catview/media/highres/103073 Data page: http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=121651 Mail Collar Iron and Bronze Length: 60 cm (measured at...

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Re: Heffalumps

Heffalumps

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Re: Arrow Wounds and Treatment

Re: Another new look at an old friend

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Re: Rudolph II's hosen?

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Re: Introduction and High Medieval mail project

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Splint rerebraces

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