Does anyone know exactly how munions were attached to the gorget in an almain collar assembly?

thank you

Hello
I found this at Mercenary's Tailor. Looks like it's attached underneath the gorget with rivets.

Almain collar refers to an assembly of gorget and long spaulders called munnions attached directly to the gorget forming a complete unit and seeming to have been developed in Germany sometime in the mid 16th century. The armoury at Graz has literally thousands of these assemblies. Using the historical original munnion in our gallery we have developed a set of Almain collar

Hugo

http://www.merctailor.com/catalog/product_inf...rp8bk26oi2

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3632/3393336953_fbcef2e870_b.jpg page shows riveted. wonder if its directly riveted steel to steel or if the collar is riveted to a piece of leather that attaches to the shoulder?

On leathers. See this thread here with an original example http://www.livinghistorylibrary.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=346

Allan,

I cannot get your link to work for me.

Lucas,

I cannot find pictures but I have seen at least two systems. One with leathers and one where it is on just a post like part.

I could not find pictures sadly that show this though.

RPM

Randal, Eric seems to have taken the forum down. Try this one http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewto...ain+collar same original black and white almain collar, picks taken from the previously reference forum.

Lucas, the front rivets are blind. The rivets don't pass through both plates but only the outside plate and piened to fill the hole. There are paired holes used initially during the forming process, but when final assembly is done, since articulation is on leathers on the front, the outside hole is filled with a rivet, the inside hole is used to secure the leather for articulation. The back needs only slot riveted articulation as you can only move your arms 20-25 degrees backward from shoulder to elbow, but humans have the ability to effectively hug themselves around the front so comperssion leather articulation is needed to allow for this, the plates being able to telescope together in compression.

Any multi piece tassets. This one that we own is articulated the exact same way http://www.merctailor.com/originals.php?original_pk=37