The Armour Archive

Hey everyone,

I was at barnes and nobel yesterday and placed a special order for TOMAR. The price 39.95, just thought I would let everyone know about this. They told me it would be 3-4 weeks, but hey, I can wait.

Also, anyone heard anything about TOMAR 2?

Nicholas

$40.00!!!!! When I went to B&B, they told me that it was out of print and they didn't sell it anymore. Those scemeing turds, uurrrghhh! aannyyway, I've found it at www.Amazon.com for fifty bucks, but thats it.

I got mine second hand for $30

Definitely the bargain of the week! Biiig happy face .

Nicolas, there is report that a TOMAR 15th Century German is in the works. Armormaking diverged into two large centers of production right around 1400 -- Milanese/Northern Italian, all up and down the Po River valley, and Augsberg/Holy Roman Empire, anywhere in the Germanies that was going into manufacture in metals. There were smaller regional styles, too, but these were the biggies. So about the best way to make a comprehensive approach to 15th-century plate armor is one volume for German style and one for Italian. However, only the German style volume is now expected from Brian Price -- the guy really wants to be making armor, not writing about making armor, at this time. It would require, no doubt, some smithying-related bout of severe ill health to force Mr. Price to write the Italian volume needed to complete the 15th century.

This should constitute an excellent opportunity for someone else to step up. I'd love to do such a work myself -- I've some literary ambitions -- but I don't have the metalworking knowledge and mastery needed.

Then on to the sixteenth century, and the same deal, only rather bigger, as it would call for not only more assorted designs and patterns, but more schools of style: English (which is late German), Burgundian, the Spanish influence, particularly upon footsoldiers' armor, et cetera.

ISBN?

isbn 15816-0098-4