The Armour Archive

I was wondering if we could get a sticky with links to various photo collections of period armour?

It seems that there is a lot of topics from folks asking about pictures and if we collaborated and shared our links, we could probably create a pretty comprehensive "album".

Just a thought.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoog/sets ... 881396414/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roelipilam ... 211510771/

http://www.englyshe-plate-armourie.co.u ... ur.html#BH
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These photos are fantastic:

[img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/120280492_098de46df4_b.jpg[/img]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tizzie/87642239/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinhole/12 ... otostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelk/se ... 064186330/

This is a mix of LH pics and museum pics: http://www.flickr.com/groups/68529659@N00/pool/

Please post your links - all types and periods

There's a bunch of armour in my photos from my trip to Turkey in 2007:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebr ... 245951449/

There's some western European stuff in the military museum and Topkapı palace sections.

-Derian.

Here's my only contribution so far... 150 photos from my trip to Vienna in 2006, snapped in the Kunsthistoriches Museum while it was under renovation. I think only about 2/3 of the place was on display.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45665351@N ... 612075258/

-Gerhard

Wow, what a great thread. Thank you posters!

I just visited the castle museum of Milan, took a few pictures of armour and a bunch of pictures of pictures of armour.

http://picasaweb.google.com/10642917327 ... Milan2010#

I'll throw in mine.

Our local museum had a few pieces on loan from the Higgins.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32594982@N ... 387146751/

New one for today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aatemu/with/2332724985/

I don't know if it rises to the level you are looking for, but here is the link to my photohoard
http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s294 ... %20armour/

samurai chain armor>

http://s831.photobucket.com/albums/zz238/estcrh/kusari/



samurai portable armor>

http://s831.photobucket.com/albums/zz23 ... a%20kikko/

american samurai wrote:samurai chain armor>

http://s831.photobucket.com/albums/zz238/estcrh/kusari/



samurai portable armor>

http://s831.photobucket.com/albums/zz23 ... a%20kikko/

Sweet! I need to find and scan a ton of photos I took of bushi armour at the Hachiman temple in Kamakura. All of it was period pieces and was set close enough to the glass for me to get some really up close and good pics of not only maille, but the bindings as well.

sha-ul wrote:I don't know if it rises to the level you are looking for, but here is the link to my photohoard
http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s294 ... %20armour/

Those are great. When I have a few spare minutes, I just run a seach for photo sets of armour and then post the links here.

Like I said in the original post, it seems that folks are always looking for links to photos of specific armour that are in various museum collections around the world. I just thought that by putting as many as we could in one place (and I will go back and make mine a bit easier to find by era), we would have a "database" of information at our fingers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoog/sets ... 296466881/

This thread ought to be a sticky.

If you are actually willing to share your images, you could join the AAF (http://www.armsandarmourforum.com) and sign in for the AAFID (Arms and Armour Forum Image Database).
There are 34000+ photos of arms and armour there.
It is free and quite amazing.

Essays and more (including awesome links to period artwork)

http://www.historiclife.com/Essays.html

Tower of London Exhibit

Age of Armour since he has been a good friend of mine for a long time.

Lloyd wrote:Age of Armour since he has been a good friend of mine for a long time.

it's a shame he hasn't posted here in forever

just before he dropped out here, he asked about interest in an armouring DVD

Lloyd wrote:Essays and more (including awesome links to period artwork)

http://www.historiclife.com/Essays.html

My clothing stuff with some notes: http://www.historiclife.com/HistoricalClothing.htm

Some How To and research essays: http://www.historiclife.com/Essays.html

Museum photos with plenty of armor: http://www.historiclife.com/Events/MuseumTrips.htm

Bump and looking for others to join in with their photo sets and/or links.

Wouldn't it be better to put these in the "I Wanna Be A..." threads. More work, but it'd tie things together.

any chance this thread could be a sticky?