The Armour Archive

Tom B.

What about the difference in the coloration/corrosion between the interiors of the fauld lames and the breastplate?
Goll 3517 PDF

It may be that we are looking at some real parts and some Victorian restoration/additions.

Tom B.

Other items worth comparison are
Goll 3813

and
Goll 3521

Tom B.

I am interested is hearing James' opinion of the lance rest associated with your A-237 Breastplate

Tom B.

Someone who really groks French art from this period would be helpful. What about the vertical crease on the couters? This time period is not my strong suit but elbows that look like knees is one of the reenactorisms that we often talk about. I think you are right about the need for a person more i...

Tom B.

What about the shape of the couters?

There is something about the overall impression I get from this piece that feels off.
I very easily could be wrong.

Tom B.

I did see this image while doing some other research.
He has what look like rivet heads all along the edges of his knees and elbows.
Are the joints covered metal?
The limbs maybe splinted leather.

Tom B.

Here are some shots from St George, Prag 1365

Tom B.

Thomas Neijman has a project, as part of his Master's Thesis to do a strontium analysis on the human remains. This could definitively determine who wore what armour. Total project funds needed is about $5.2k USD Take a look Here is a link to the crowd funding site: http://www.crowdculture.se/en/proj...

Tom B.

Have we discussed this guy before? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/20/3b/1e/203b1ed6dbd0a45b6841bff6205464e6.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b2/d9/f8/b2d9f8f1d3dd2a07226b328dd47ab527.jpg Lots of more detailed photos here: Roel Renmans' Flickr Album ca. 1370-1380 - 'St. George...

Tom B.

I am sure most of you guys are familiar with this guy. Many detailed photos at this link starting at image 231. https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=79AED220A0698065&id=79AED220A0698065%211365&parId=79AED220A0698065%211132&o=OneUp http://effigiesandbrasses.com/media/cache/effigiesandbrasses.com/original/s...

Tom B.

Here is the link to Goll 809 that Ergosum linked to

Goll's PDF for Ref_arm_809

Tom B.

While we are on the subject I have another two threads to link to:

Discussion Pizan vs Standard: what is the difference?
Researching Mail Bevors

As you might guess, mail neck protection is a subject I am very interested in.

Tom B.

Thanks for posting the details of the find and dating.

We did look at some of your photos and discussed it a bit last year in this thread:
Discussion of extant mail standards

I also have your photos from that discussion on one of my Pinterest Boards:
medieval-mail-collars-both-extant-in-art

Tom B.

I've got the images back into an album (thank you, Tom!) and have started refilling the lacunae in the posts. This will take a couple more sessions to complete. People who "quoted" any of the old images will need to edit their posts to get them looking nice again. Mac Glad to see you have things un...

Tom B.

Oh, and shame on you for causing me to go back and look at the KHM book store, I could easily spend a $1000USD on books.

I resisted the urge but it was difficult.

Tom B.

I want to order the first volume but the KHM shop is not accessible. Anyone know anything about if it is a temporary problem or if I can buy it elsewhere? A quick search on Bookfinder gave several results at a bit over $100 USD including shipping (our original bulk order cost was $130 each). Make s...

Tom B.

Thanks for the initial thoughts and brainstorm. My gut feeling is that simple assymetry is the most straightforward solution. This is what I'm thinking based on the input above. If the edge of the overlapping plate sits far enough off center (and we're talking fractions of an inch here I think), th...

Tom B.

A few more ideas, which hinge (pun intended ;)) on the overlap design and/or closuer method of the back plate. 1. Design the overlap in such a way that the edge if the outer plate is is not down the center then it would be easy to make an attachment for the strap. Even a small offset would accommoda...

Tom B.

No historical examples of solutions spring to mind but I will take a look through some of the art from the time period. What if the lower portion of the attachment strap was mounted to a removable plate. The plate could bridge the center opening and temporarily attached to both halves of the backpla...

Tom B.

Carlo Paggiarino wrote:Thank you Tom. Much appreciated!

You are most welcome.

Tom B.

This took less than an hour and a couple bucks worth of iron. It seems like cheap insurance... (snip) Mac As you have told me more than once "Nothing exceeds like excess..." :) As a mechanical Engineer, like Sean, I often have to do the same sort of effort vs risk evaluations. I find it is usually ...

Tom B.

Carlo Paggiarino wrote:Is there any way to download them in one go?
Cheers.

It seems you can download the entire album if you have a Microsoft account.
I went ahead and signed up for one just to download these 2.64 GB of photos

Tom B.

A new photo from last weekend's Days of Knights Living History Timeline Event.
Photo by Ian LaSpina

Tom B.

Here is an excellent album of photos, from Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, that I just stumbled across. OneDrive Photo Album: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Some examples: https://dm2305files.storage.live.com/y3pYhZZpz-y4Vyj0-YRc3Cc6pd5osrTjRszvu5zM4MlB7Bhdc9f6n_4Nxfiau32E9Bl9bghbZEK-hCgrx7jCOhPG2XmUYzxlIYZ...

Tom B.

For those who do FaceBook, here is an album of pics of Ed's A30 reproduction by Jeff Wasson.

Reproduction of the Wallace collection's A30 Armour

He just needs some appropriate pieces of well fitted mail.
Luckily I have it on good authority that he knows a guy

Tom B.

I've sorta' got it under control, but I still feel a bit lost trying to get around in the new format. Sometimes I can't figure out how to get to the album I want, and I never did figure out how to label it. There was a screen that purported to let me change the name etc, and it took some (but not a...

Tom B.

I did cringe a bit at the first picture. The amours aren't bad, but they don't play well with each other. When I was there, the guys fighting were mostly in a 100 year period. They seemed to have stretched it out some more with the guy on the left there. Wade We do make sure to point things like th...

Tom B.

Mac wrote:Thanks for posting those links, Tom!

I've just had the whirlwind-one-man-critique of the various items of kit, and was thinking that this would be a lot more fun with small group of enthusiasts and some beer and pizza.

Mac

That does sound like a fun and educational time.

Tom B.

As usual, some very nice stuff there. I enjoyed my visit to the 2015 one. It moves East again next year... right? I am still pretty heavily weighted toward later stuff, but maybe we can do something again next year? Wade We are still working on things be we hope to have a more substantial & officia...

Tom B.

Last weekend was what has become my one big annual medieval event, Days of Knights Living History Timeline Event. Here are some albums of photos from the event: One Luck Guy's Flickr Album from DoK 2016 Ian LaSpina's FB Album Some Previews of a fe of Ian's Photos https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...

Tom B.

Mac,

Good to see that you have sorted out the image posting thing.
Many thanks for the great info packed updates.

Tom B.

Mac, I am not sure if you are using my manual method for posting and resizing the photos, if so here are a couple of further things thah may make it a bit easier. Here is what you used to get one of the photos above posted. Note the part I have bolded: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eTmN8kib2SpNS...

Tom B.

That does sound tedious but I am glad to hear that there will be gold plating.

Tom B.

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Tom B.

I was there last week, but the number and quality of suits was quite overwhelming. I don't have a lot of detail to add. There are 5 gothic suits in this display, with a horse in the center. Sigismund has vambraces that close with spring pins, as shown in Mac's thread. On the left side of the displa...

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