The Armour Archive

Hi all,
As I declared on my "Quest for real armour"post, I'm looking to upgrade my armour to look like real armour from the early 14th century 1300-1325. IIRC, coats of plate are in use at this time, at least on the Continent. Are there patterns for them? I found this on the Die Liebaart website http://www.liebaart.org/platen_e.htm which may be what I'm looking for. There's the St Maurice coat that someone on the AA made. All the searches I've done have turned up a plethora of Wisby types, I'm not sure if any are old fashioned enough to have been state of the art in the first quarter of the 14th cent????

Anyhow, if anyone has pictures, links or places to look for early coats of plates, I'd be grateful.

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jselmer/st_maurice.htm
http://www.arador.com/articles/index.html

Might or might not be of help. Contact DeCalmont here on the archive. He has made his version of one and should be able to help.

Wisby's

http://www.hoashantverk.se/hantverk/hoas_rustningar/

Yeah, after seeing Adams (Whitemountain Armoury) version of the St. Maurice COP I tried my hand at one. It turned out pretty well, but my kit went another direction so it went to another in our Company. Don't know how much help I can give but I'm willing to give you any pointers I can.

I'm trying to find a picture of it, I'll post it if I can or maybe Iaen has one?

Here is the pic you took of it.

looks nice!

I've gotta admit -- I've always thought the St. Maurice CoP looked goofy as hell.


Effingham