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Wed 08 Mar, 2006 10:14 am
Don't forget that ocular's floral decorations were painted, not brass.
An helm reproduced in wrought iron and wit golden-painted occulars would be a real hit, looking once upon a time historical in the true sens of this word.
Then there was no polished stainles steel (armor was polished by rolling pieces inside a barrel full of river sand, in the fifties my father in law would still use this method to polish metal here in Italy, sand was from the Pò river), and real steel was scarce even in renaissance times, while at the time of
great helms I doubt there was any.