The Armour Archive

I just received my copy of Matthais Goll's "Mit Eiserner Faust" (With Iron Fist)
It is 276 pages, with over 150 photos, formated at 17cm x 22cm, with text in German.
The main subject matter is late 15th century German gauntlets.

Since I do not read German very well and my progress with text is very slow I will restrict my comments to the photos.
In my opinion the photos alone make the book worth while.
Now in one book there is a comprehensive catalog of these gauntlets.
In addition to the usual suspects there are also many photos of previously unpublished examples.
There are also multiple views, including inside shots, of some.

My only criticism is that the overall format of the book is rather small (17cm x 22cm),
I am sure that this was to keep the publishing cost to a more manageable number.

In my opinion this is a must have book for the late 15th century German armour aficionado.


Tom

Then comment, dammit!

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:Then comment, dammit!

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Enrico di Venezia wrote:In my opinion the photos alone make the book worth while.
Now in one book there is a comprehensive catalog of these gauntlets.
In addition to the usual suspects there are also many photos of previously unpublished examples.
There are also multiple views, including inside shots, of some.
...
In my opinion this is a must have book for the late 15th century German armour aficionado.

Photos and info on 42 pairs of gauntlets dating from 1480 to 1500.
Including over 20 photos of the superb fingered gauntlets from the Augustiner Museum, Freiburg (inventory # 973).
The left gauntlet of which still has the original leathers and glove.
Metallurgical analysis.
Detailed progress pictures of a replica gauntlet.

All in all great stuff.

Agree!It's a real nice book, small dimensions but great interest inside, and the reason about these dimensions, because this book is a self publishing...

I passed this book around to several people at Hammerfest over the weekend and it sparked some very good discussions.
Several people were unaware of the book and others had been unsure about ordering it until they saw it first hand.

I played with it this weekend.

I guess I need to buy it.

Mac and I did have fun pointing out how the "copy" the author made did a good job of copying the decoration but not actually making the gauntlet fit a hand. I guess that is actually something else to learn from the book.

We were also discussing hinge location for cuff plates. There is a very nice pair with them in the "wrong" place, but they really appear to be where they were intended to be. Very interesting.

It does have a large number of very useful pictures of late 15th c. German gauntlets.

Add my pictures and movie and you really have a good idea how they work.

Wade