Weapons pics for you guys to drool over..... armor too

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Weapons pics for you guys to drool over..... armor too

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Visited the republic of San Marino yesterday.


Their Ancient arms museum (as opposed to modern arms) was nice.

Everything from medieval through Napoleonic and 1850s.

Here's a few, more to come (these were the best shots handy)

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Far as I can tell, 14th century jousting helm.
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Light cavalry armor, near as I can tell.

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Some very nice gauntlets!
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Maille, apparently with some scale type armor built into it.

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French Napoleonic Dragoon helmet.

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Inside dragoon breastplate.
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Not all this stuff was for show.
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Got to love the polearms!
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A very dressy sword.
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Italian not being my specialty i think this is a Pappenheimer rapier.
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Thought this was a winding key for a wheellock but it was the size of my fore-arm... any clues?
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Those aren't Pappenheimer rapiers, they're smallswords, which replaced rapiers as the weapon of choice among the nobility in the latter part of the 17th century.
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I was 50/50 over smallsword vs Pappeheimer, I thought they were a bit big for smallswords.
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I'm guessing that the first helmet dates to c1560-70.

The light cavalry armour is probably c1650.
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Post by B. Fulton »

The majority was 1500s-on, but they did have some stuff that was from around the founding of the first tower (1253), 1300s era stuff. I've got more pics, not as clear, i'll post them.
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Cool stuff, thanks for the pics 8)
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The mail with plates looks like Jazerant, a type of armour I've always thought was pretty cool.

The lining in the dragoon's breastplate is quite interesting. I wonder how it might inform us about similar treatments in earlier bp's where liners may not have survived....

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You can thank my wife for spotting it and getting a pic. She knew that was unusual. :)
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