The Armour Archive

http://www.northerner.com/html/historical.html

Anyone ever buy from these cats? Though their stock-in-trade seems to be tourist wares and tchochkes, they also sell a range of repro historical glassware and ceramics, with a decent selection of Scandinavian, German, and Bohemian items dating from the Viking period to the 15th century. Prices are reasonable. I'd want to see their documentation before throwing shitloads of money at them, but they look promising. Y'all making ready for Crossroads in Time, take note.

Klaus

Klaus the Red wrote:Anyone ever buy from these cats?

Yep.

The glassware is pretty dead-on for what I was looking for (though I was coming at it from looking at what was used then and looking for modern examples). I think Northerner's glassware is all Scanglas.

(In terms of a review as a retailer -- I remember it taking an extraordinarily long time for the glassware to actually arrive. I seem to recall ordering it sometime around July and receiving it what seemed like months later, but in plenty of time for Christmas. For us, that was a good year to get Christmas shopping done early)

There's other places to look at for historical glassware -- Historical Glassworks puts out some really nice stuff, though their website doesn't display very much of it. Depending on what period you're looking for, there's also Historic Enterprises, Jelling Dragon, Tanjadis, Histoire Vivante, and Medieval Design.

Better and better- thanks for the links. (On your page of period examples, the bowl listed as being from 14th century Greece is actually captioned in the link as being 16th century, in case you want to move it.)

If I wanted to go right to the source, how's Scanglas for shipping?

Klaus