Armour goofs

James Arlen Gillaspie · Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:48 pm

Some smaller museums have issues, as you can see.

Cet · Post by **Cet** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:22 am

That's a surprisingly common mistake, repeated in a pic at the Higgins and on the cover of a German collection catalogue ( along with reversed arms IIRC

Thomas Adler · Post by **Thomas Adler** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:13 am

I was in vegas... and saw a big castle there, The Excalibur Casino, and wanted to look around...

Walk in, the first thing I see is a HUGE statue of a knight on horseback...

The knee's were on the wrong legs, like in that picture.. I thought it was hysterical, of course, nobody else I was with got the joke.

Cat · Post by **Cat** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:25 am

LoL! In the first pic, it looks like the the greaves are on the wrong legs too. Did you point that out to whoever was running the place? If you didn't, when you go back, take a camera so you can capture the look on their face when you tell them.

Duco de Klonia · Post by **Duco de Klonia** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:32 am

(first picture...)
If I'm right, on his right shoulder, I see a large horizontal plate, normally ment as a vertical part of the left-pauldron, protecting a knights neck...

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Let's make this a running topic- "Funny or Strange armour pics"

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:27 pm

Oops!

Thanks for the pics.

Richard Blackmoore · Post by **Richard Blackmoore** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:14 pm

I remember seeing a picture of a very familiar looking, but left handed German 1400's harness on horseback in one of my books. Complete with the lance rest on the left side of the breastplate and the sword strapped on the wrong side.

Given that there is almost zero documentation for left handed fighters with armour set up to accomodate them, and I had spent years telling lefties in the SCA they would at least joust lefthanded if not fight in battle lefthanded, it was one of those "Oh Wow?!?!" moments.

Then I realized it was the famous 'Warwick' harness and someone, probably the printer, had reversed the negative during printing.

IIRC it is in Turnbull's Book of the Medieval Knight.