The Armour Archive

Is anyone acquainted with either of these publications?
Both are collections of essays and are published by the ICOMAM - International Committee of Museums of Arms and Military History

Make all sure
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Edited by Robert Douglas Smith
Published byBasiliscoe Press, February 2006
Language: English
Pages: 144, 137 b/w and 72 coulor ilustrations
Softcover
Size: 21 x 29,5 cm
ISBN: 0955162203
Price: £15 + P&P - £4 UK, £6 Europe, £10 N America (airmail)
Click to see table of contents


Behind the scenes of the museum
(click on pic below to go to publisher's webpage for this item)

Edited by Robert Douglas Smith, Eveline Sint Nicloaas and Peter Sigmond
Printed in Great Britain
Language: English
Pages: 86
Softcover
Size: 21 x 29,5 cm
ISBN: (no number)
Price: £ 10 + P&P included
Click to see table of contents

The full list of their publications is here:
http://www.icomam.be/publications.php

It looks like their annual magazine is downloadable from this page (look on the right, near the top, under "Current News Items")

http://www.icomam.be/magazine.php

I should check to be sure, but I am pretty certain that I have "Make All Sure". It has been a while since I looked it over, but if I am right it wasn't as illuminating as I had hoped when I bought it.

Wade

"Make All Sure" is still for sale. Some parts are a bit conservatorial ("wow, originally armour was mixed media, and that is really difficult to conserve!") but it has an essay on Bashford Dean and his private armourers with an enlightening before and after photo of a gauntlet from Chalcis, an essay on the gun targets of Henry VIII including photos of them disassembled for cleaning, and some sources on armour maintenance in the 17th and 18th centuries.