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I have many pics, but no functional scanner.

Here is a link to the Fredrich Herlin image of St. George mounted

http://www.noerdlingen.de/ISY/mlib/medi ... atrace=.72.

Here is a link to the Beauchamp Pagent images online, pretty much every other sallet is either topped with an orb, or an orb with a feather, or panache of feathers.

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=006495

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Not commonly seen. The one vase style plume holder shows up in a mid 1460's St. George, but it is located on the brow plate of the sallet (seperate from the visor). Much more often plumes are seen being held by small orbs directly atop the sallet, (or bascinet), or in small tube holders affixed atop...

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Yes, but that is a continental source.

I haven't located the sumptuary law Brent is referring to yet.

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It is definitely fabric, and most likely silk.

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"A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", for those who didn't get the reference.

Sadly, Clemens is very out of fashion, to the point of it being fashionable to dislike him nowadays.

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The mahoitered sleeve certianly shows up in Burgundian art earliest (Flanders is a part of Burgundy), in the 1460's. The trouble wth England is there are so few completely English visual sources - lots of craftsmen making sculptures and painting in Southern England in the 15th century are known to h...

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Beautiful work!

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Hi Graham, I can't see the first image. The second image is titled with a more professional font, but is indeed a clean semi-formal clerical hand. Some are not so clear, even when new-written (the Limouge saddlers guild regulations were written down by a cleck who should have had his thumbs removed ...

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1000 The herb "Angelikarot" is smoked in pipes in Norway. So...I'll just claim what I'm smoking is "Angelikarot" instead of the nice pipe tobacco I'm actually smoking. *grin* Seriously, I do wonder what their pipes looked like. There was no medieval pipe-smoking. No medieval 'pi...

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From the first paragraph of chapter 1 in The Social History of Smoking (1914), an admittedly old text: There is little doubt that the smoke of herbs and leaves of various kinds was inhaled in this country [England], and in Europe generally, long before tobacco was ever heard of on this side the Atl...

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Are you actually interested in preofessional manuscript fonts? Or are you interested in a more clerical hand? The latter is much more common than the former, but it depends on if you are looking to replicate a professionally manufactured book of hours, or a house-book.

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What makes them stick out as being Near/middle eastern is the inlay.

I'd use one with no problem, however. I think they would work best for Southern Europe, if you are being nit-picky.

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THe overgowns of the day were generally constructed with excess fabric, to form generous pleats. If your armour is fitted to you, and your gown is properly constructed, you can wear it with or without the armour. You don't have to close the gown, a belt can keep it in place. I wear wool and 'brocade...

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There is little solid evidence, as you know, in the way of images for the region in the specific era. Custom of the time I think would dictate the respectable third layer for anyone with pretension to the middle class. You need something to pin your St. Georges cross or St. Andrews cross to (if you ...

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If they existed the decorative links would be at the fringes of the mail, since brass/copper/silver etc are much softer than steel. I dont know of any documentation off the top of my head. Not neccessarily. There are a number of 15th century effigies depicting mail with patterns in mail standing pr...

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I know. But do you think an Englishman would have gone? Why yes, Cardinal Beaufort and his retinue were involved, as well as other English crusaders. It was fairly common for foriegn 'tourist' crusaders, often English, to participate in the annual crusades of the Teutonic knights against the Lithua...

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National 'markers' in regards to armour in this era is extremely unlikely. I have seen no evidence for 'German' (a concept that didn't exist at the time) armour, pretty much, what you are looking at for Northern Europe is an international style, of some sort of conicle helmet, most probably with a n...

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I'd say French by style, and it is defnitely depicting classical mythology, as those are typical depictions of amazons of the time.

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to keep this from falling off the page.

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Tracy Justus wrote:Chef-- is it this book?

T.

Hi Tracy

No, that is not the book. It isn't a MET catalog, it is a private printing of the Arms and Armour Society, 22 years after that exhibition, as a memorial to Bashford Dean. Some of the items in the link are in the book.

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A catalog of what? The Bashford Dean collection, what he donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is not a MET catalog, it is a private printing by the Arms and Armour Society in 1933, one for each member (250 of them at the time), as a token of esteem for their erstwhile President, Bashford D...

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Just a note to add that I will be putting the next lot up for sale tomorrow.

The first BIG armour book that will go, will go up on an e-bay auction next week

AN ORIGINAL BASHFORD DEAN CATALOG ! 1 of a total of 250 copies printed. This is NOT a knock-off, but the real deal.

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The bidding has officially ended. The winning bid is $45 + shipping. Please PM me, and we will arrange payment and shipping.

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A good friend has lost his mind, and is auctioning off a bunch of armour books, some of which he won't be able to replace, and most of which are pricy. He has a second child on the way, and he needs money more than books. I am posting for auction here the affordable books that any neophyte should lo...

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1. The fist step is to carefully tailor the cloth in the form of a doublet body pattern, to you. Allow @ 1" of room for the plates. 2. Sew together the same way you would a doublet. Usually, the base would be canvas, the cover another, finer material. The canvas is akin to the lining of a norma...

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The change begins in the last decades of the 14th century.

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I don't think it was steam, unless it is expoosure for an extended period of time. I tried with an ash dowel, and steamed each side of it after carving nicks/divots into it, for an hour and it did nothing. I am doing to immerse the dowel in water overnight and see if I get a result.

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I've been searching the forum, and can't find the topic.

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The simple answer is yes, and we have 1 authentic early 14th century example extant that I am aware of. Self bows requite the longer prods, although they are still thicker, and shorter than a normal hand self bow would be, and requirred at the least a foot through a stirrup, or two feet - one on eac...

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A few months ago, someone posted a technique for creating the effect of raised knobs along the haft of a boarspear. Does anyone have a link, or can they post the technique?

I believe it involved making nicks or notches along the haft, and then soaking it? Does anyone remember this?

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Ok, Specifically the time around the seige of Orleans. Would the bellows faced salet have been worn during this time period? Or was it more after the HYW? If not, then what type of helmet would have been worn by both the French and the English during that time as far as knights and men at arms (I k...

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Boarspears, hafts, raising knobs/knots?

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