The Coat of Plates

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Are there any pics/examples of coats of plates that buckle up the front? Like transitional examples during the period between the CoP and Brigandine?

[marcus the pale]

Wisby 24.

Recreated HERE, pics near the bottom of the page.


marcus

[Konstantin the Red]

Is there a strong consideration of date, of which decade you're looking at?

For with the merest nudge, you'd go from a coat of plates to an early-15th brigandine. So if you're buckling, shouldn't you be making a brigandine à outrance?

And here's the specific pic Marcus had in mind: http://www.hoashantverk.se/hantverk/hoas_rustningar/source/suit_of_armour_no_24_front.html

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Sweet. Anything else?

[Cet]

There was one of numerous rectangular plates found in the Chalcis hoard and now at the Met . I don't have pics of it on line.

[Kilkenny]

Are there any pics/examples of coats of plates that buckle up the front? Like transitional examples during the period between the CoP and Brigandine?

It's one of those odd things. In a sense, Coat of Plates means it doesn't open in front. That Wisby example is, essentially, a covered lammellar.

The Corrazina, however - which always has seemed to me to be the evolutionary precursor to the brigandine - *is* pretty well defined by opening in front...

So the boxy/cylindrical dumpy Coat of Plates doesn't open in front... but the sexy narrow waisted Corrazina does.

That's my story, at least

[Konstantin the Red]

Sad but true. The CoP does have that problem: "Does this armor make me look fat?"