Does anyone have any decent pictures of both late 16th Century Foot half armours or corlsets and "Pikemans' armour for the period 1600 to 1650 or there abouts. I'm looking to commission either a late 16th Century corslet for a pikeman in english service in the Low counties and/or Pike armour for English Civil war thats suitably loose in style for 1610 ish plus!

I've got all the Graz pictues I can find, which tend to be "German" style armours. English taste seems to run to the Peascod belly approach!

I'm sure Gordon will pipe in here soon enough, but I'll post up more of what I have on Monday. For now here's some bad picts of a corslet from the Chicago Art Institute. I was mainly trying to get images of the hook closures.

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David,

Here's a pic from Brassey's Master Class series of books called "LivingHistory", showing a ECW sergeant of pike in full gear.

Cheers,

Bill

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Chris,
Than ks for that one...

William,
Thats a good picture of one of the Fairfax Battalia boys, Can't remember his soddin' name right name!

Ok, I don't have nearly as many pictures as I thought I did. I'll continue to dig through some books at home to get some more for you this weekend. (Painting a nursery is taking all my free time right now - who knew painting the Hundred Acre Wood would be so difficult?)

Pembroke Harness This is one that I'm absolutely in love with, and it will be mine as soon as I win the lottery.

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From the Higgins

Were the tassets that short? I thought they came down nearly to the top of the knee.

Dan Mackison

William Goodwin wrote:

David, Here's a pic from Brassey's Master Class series of books called "LivingHistory", showing a ECW sergeant of pike in full gear. Cheers, Bill

Well here is one by Mercenary Taylor's and the tassets look about mid thigh in length I think:
http://www.merctailor.com/catalog/product_inf...ucts_id=37

I'm sorry I wasn't clear. I am aware that tassets have been articulated in many times and places. I was referring specifically to the tassets on English Pikemen's armor from the English Civil War pictured above which are almost always made from two (one for each leg) large almost square pieces of metal with simulated lames.

Got it. Its worth remembering that large quantites of continental armour were imported during the ECW. Europe was just wrapping up the 30 Years War and had positively vast quantities of munitions armour avaliable, England was not necessarily flush with the stuff so bunches were purchased from the continent.

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