The Armour Archive

Gerhard von Liebau

I like it, Josh! Is it comfortable and convenient to have your head so far forward inside of the great bascinet? I imagine it's good for vision but it looks like your chin will sit really close to the bottom of the visor.

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

I saw this shared elsewhere and am a really big fan of how it turned out - the concept, construction and execution of the work is all inspiring.

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

A well-earned bump for you, Alexander! Lovely armour... What sort of chest measurements are we considering here? The armour fits very nicely on the model in the photos. What are his measurements, and what is the thickness of that gambeson? Cheers!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

https://collections.royalarmouries.org/#/objects

'Nuff said!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

BUMP! Price reduced to $200!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

St. George's Tournament Report St. George's Tournament Flickr Album A neat article and photo gallery I came across concerning a big medieval tournament held in Kolomenskoye park in Moscow on 1-2 May. I was there for the last couple hours of the event, but didn't see any of the tournament... It cost...

Gerhard von Liebau

Ernst, If you look at photos from large European reenactment events, a majority of the participants on battlefields are typically lightly armed and appear to be portraying regular soldiers. I think it's the American "knight in shining armor" concept and strong sense of individualism here that create...

Gerhard von Liebau

Hey Sean, It's really not too heavy at all - I don't have any way of measuring it exactly right now, but it seems to be weigh less than a mug full of water that I have handy. Certainly less than a kilogram. I personally suspect that the originals would have been made in a shop where standards were t...

Gerhard von Liebau

Hello folks, I finally finished a long-term project for my friend Giannis Kadoglou, a discerning reenactor and my gracious host during a late summer I spent in Thrace in 2014. It is a classical Greek quiver, with construction inspired primarily by the Piraeus Artemis B statue housed in Athens, and p...

Gerhard von Liebau

Bump! BOTH helmets for $200 total... Someone take these off my shelf!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

How tightly bonded were the pieces of leather when you applied the glue? Did you clamp them securely? How long did you let them sit? Without good clamps and some patience, any decent glue applied to leather or wood is likely to come to naught. If you find the hide glue not up to snuff even after cla...

Gerhard von Liebau

Weird, I can click the link just fine. Look up "medieval shoe Museum of London" on Google Images. It comes up a few rows down. Photo shows three shoes - the one in the middle has punch work decoration.

Gerhard von Liebau

Not exactly the same concept, but here's a shoe from the Museum of London that came to mind: http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/464505827-leather-shoes-medieval-one-of-the-shoes-is-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QQOmjgGg3WwJ%2BDDnzF%2Bn9Alzed8E90LwqO9xGYlrVbwo6sfhJwjVI%2B6LIk...

Gerhard von Liebau

Mac wrote:The plan is to employ a spinal nerve block so that I will be conscious for the procedure.

Have you read an article titled The Wisdom of Instinct by Jean Henri Fabre (1918)? You, of all people I know, may already have... If not, I highly recommend doing so before your operation!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

What's she suspected of?

Gerhard von Liebau

I have never been to the Getty and it's a priority for me on the local level (200 miles away). If I happen to find the time in the coming months I will surely remember your request and let you know ahead of time! Cheers!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

Thanks for linking this, Raymund. I grabbed about a dozen articles from this evening's searches and will do at least a couple more sweeps before time's up... Cheers!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

Bump! All prices recently reduced.

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

Very cool, Jester. I hope you're writing an even more detailed record of your investigation elsewhere and maintaining the trail in detail. I honestly believe that if you come up with something in the end, the process of inquiry may prove to be the most fascinating part of the story. The internet is ...

Gerhard von Liebau

The coverage of archaic and classical Greek greaves changed over the centuries. They went from essentially not covering the knee at all to complete covering it. If you're looking for full-coverage, I would suggest you inspect photographs of reenactors wearing quality reproduction greaves and also st...

Gerhard von Liebau

A floating limb harness is just one where the individual components (greave-poleyn-cuisse or vambrace-couter-rerebrace) are not fixed to one another via something like a lame or integral riveted strap. They might be pointed together with laces or buckled straps or held individually onto the garments...

Gerhard von Liebau

Hidden means that Doug couldn't see what form of armour it was because it was beneath the knee-length surcoat that was popular at the time and appears in much of the art and effigies. You still need to choose some form or another. I would suggested splinted cuisses based on the rest of the kit. Chee...

Gerhard von Liebau

I present the personal armour of Gabriele Serbelloni, c. 1570, Venetian. Housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. There is also a contemporary portrait of him wearing the armour with the gauntlets and helmet sitting on the ground besides. Serbelloni was an important Venetian diplomat, adminis...

Gerhard von Liebau

It's the same harness, Mark. First photo is without the coat worn in the next two. If you're referring to the second photo in the first post, that's an original light field armour housed in Glasgow, dated c. 1505-10.

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

What do you mean by passport? Travel visa? When I went two years ago I found an agency website that I worked that out on in ten minutes and paid $40 for, if I recall correctly. Had a printable copy in hand within a week or so. Is the idea to make it look like you're intending to visit the museum for...

Gerhard von Liebau

Hmmmm... Another chase! Hopefully something turns up. Such efforts for no pot of gold at the end are usually soured a bit. Keep us posted!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

I rather forgot what sort of helm he used with that harness. In fact that reproduction is a close helm (or close armet - can't see the front) and the original helmet with the cuirass in the Glasgow collection is a complex sallet.

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

Maybe you'd be interested in a more open-face helmet, like a cervellies or black sallet, or a heavy cavalry helmet like an armet or close helm. However, such helmets do not match the nature of this light field harness - a complex sallet like the original is the best historical option to match the fu...

Gerhard von Liebau

Well, the complex sallets that are on both of those harnesses (the reproduction in the first picture is based on the original in the second) are a pretty good bet. It's a German light-cavalry style armour and sallets were still the thing at that time and place. We're talking roughly 1500-1510 for th...

Gerhard von Liebau

Hey, look at that. More than two months late and I still get the honor of hosting this year's games! Ha... Have at it!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

It's not exactly buff leather, Jeff, but Russ Mitchell might have more to say about that or you can try to find the recent thread in either the historical research or interpretive re-creation forum concerning that topic... It's definitely a reasonable substitute as far as thickness and stiffness are...

Gerhard von Liebau

Hello folks, I purchased this hide new from Tandy recently. It is very nice, white and stiff with alum all the way through, and surprisingly thick. Various measurements I have taken around the outside edges range between 4-6mm, and it was advertised as being 8-10oz. on the store display card. The ph...

Gerhard von Liebau

Hello folks, With a future of movement on the horizon, I'm parting with even some of my dearest acquisitions in order to lighten the load. Anyone interested in them probably knows all about them so I will spare the details. Neither of these helmets have their original boxes, sadly, but I purchased t...

Gerhard von Liebau

Thanks for the kind words, Mark! I'm glad you like the piece. Mark made my first Etsy purchase, which was the bracer below... Time to move the rest of this stuff. Cheers!

-Gerhard

Gerhard von Liebau

What sort of analysis do you think is worth conducting on the cards from an art history perspective? Did the previous publications not seem to be discerning about the artistic significance attached to their early date, or the styles and motifs on the cards? Curious to see where this would be heading...

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