The Armour Archive

More outrageous keenorificness. An early scale coat made by Emeric in the late 70's.

Yikes! This magnificent coat of plates was made famous by Duke Albert von Drackenveldt. I met him but didn't get a picture (Doh!) and when I asked him if he was still fighting he said "I just fought in Crown!" This coat may have been made by Sir Polidor.

Woo-hoo! Two early helmets. The one on the left was made by Duke Albert (13th King of the Midrealm BTW) and it's incredibly thick visor was cut out with a chisel! Holy crap!

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Alfred, I told you we would catch up later...

Did you? I'm so sorry, then. I was so hungover the first part of the day that your words must have gone in one ear and out the other. You really should come West, you know ?

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:This helmet was made famous by Duke Talymar...

On seeing it, I heard several comment, "I hit that!"

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:...a metal round shield made by Duke Andrew of Seldom Rest. It is brutally heavy.

I had one of his heaters, and it was equally heavy. Heavy shields (20lbs+) were made famous by Laurelen and Alen in the early 80's, who taught a minimalist style where the inertia of the heavy shield worked for you. Of course, it helped more if you were of more "elven" height ... AoC

More stuff. A closeup of the green hat.

This is the first "broken arrow" from the Pennsic Wars.

Ohboy!

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Yikes! This magnificent coat of plates was made famous by Duke Albert von Drackenveldt. I met him but didn't get a picture (Doh!) and when I asked him if he was still fighting he said "I just fought in Crown!" This coat may have been made by Sir Polidor.

Yeah, Duke Albert's pretty regularly in northern Crown tournaments. We usually get to see some interesting fights from him, since he'll usually switch to fighting German longsword with people he's comfortable with.

That's a pretty cool CoP, and light years better than stuff still on the field.

This is where everything changed for medieval reenactment on Earth- an early bascinet by Valerius and Will of Whitshire. Just seeing pics from the first Valerius catalog blew minds because then everyone clearly saw what was possible.

I didn't take many pictures of contemporary pieces, or even work from the 80's. Sorry.

The inside of a freon can helmet. There are holes letting in bits of light.

I got so excited I just started putting these old helmets on and making ridiculous faces.

It was seriously awesome. Most of these helmets were wayy more comfortable than my own. This is me wearing the first helmet that Talbot made- a gigantic monster "Norman" helmet. See? It has a nasal!

More Vitus in ancient relics. This is my Renfield face. Folo in the background.

I was in heaven. This is sort of my squished-up, smug, nerd-boy face.

More fun in the sun.

Buffonery abounded. Talbot and I were freaking out. Sir Emeric egging me on.

My squire Ingram wearing what we thought was the funniest helmet of all. There was a bizarre hinged visor that seemed to serve no purpose.

Then lady Matilda said "You morons, that's there so the guy could put on his glasses if he had forgotten them without strapping his helmet back on. He could also quickly clean his glasses if needed. He wore glasses, idiots."

Sunday we were in the groups closet in the basement of Ida Noyes putting things away and I look at our loaner gear. Some of our helms look like stuff from the display!

A great pic of Duke Merowald (8th and 16th KIng of the Midrealm) and Folo Watkins the famous chronicler.

The pictures are great, I will need to find the ones from our baronial 40th we had some cool artifacts too. What I thought was interesting is the similarities of the items.
Craven

Duke Comar was trained partially by Duke andrew, and mentioned that some of those roundshields out of the lids of 50 gal. drums... Metal ones....


Gah.



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I heartily approve of such shenanigans!

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:More coolness. This is a metal round shield made by Duke Andrew of Seldom Rest. It is brutally heavy.

This is owned by my uncle and Baron, Christophe van der Ross! It is ridiculously heavy.

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Some early weapons. The small sword you see here caused HG Finnvarr (Steve Muhlberger the author and professor) to blurt out "Hey! This is my fuc*ing sword!" Then he was not sure because of the pommel. He kept going back over to it and quietly saying "I think that's mine...maybe somebody took one of mine and just put that pommel on it."

Hey look, its the SuperSledge from Fallout 3.

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:The studded legs over to the right are owned by Sir Emeric Wendell, with the knees by Valerius, and were presented to Emeric on the day of his knighting.

I believe Sir Emeric still fights in those legs.

Oh, man.... Merald was there?

CRAP CRAP CRAP!

We have got fodder for Caption Contests for YEARS, here.

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:This is the first "broken arrow" from the Pennsic Wars.

WOAH

Baron Alejandro wrote:

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:This is the first "broken arrow" from the Pennsic Wars.

WOAH

What is the story behind this?

Nissan Maxima wrote:We owe these guys a debt that it is hard to see how we can pay.

Tell them.

It's amazing how many people hear about the bad but not the good. Like ripples on a pond, you never truly realize how many people you help, weither you are the initial drop or many ripples later.
Those who have been out for years will never know how much impact they've had unless they come out to these types of history events.

I try to make a point of telling those I meet - especially if I can make specific examples. They have always been gracious/humble in thanking me...which makes me all the more glad I tell them.

Thank you so much for these pictures..

I was blown away.

joleicia wrote:

Nissan Maxima wrote:We owe these guys a debt that it is hard to see how we can pay.

Tell them.

It's amazing how many people hear about the bad but not the good. Like ripples on a pond, you never truly realize how many people you help, weither you are the initial drop or many ripples later.
Those who have been out for years will never know how much impact they've had unless they come out to these types of history events.

I try to make a point of telling those I meet - especially if I can make specific examples. They have always been gracious/humble in thanking me...which makes me all the more glad I tell them.

Cariodoc was at practice and we spent quite a bit of time doing the old fart, do you remember... game.

I thanked him for building it and he graciously thanked me for keeping it going. We both looked around at some kids playing and talked about how now it was up to them.

Nissan your not old your...............no wait you are old.