Does anyone know how they were made.....repousse ? Gesso and leather ?
Does anyone have other pics of european armies using "face" shields ?


Roger Hooper wrote: |
I wonder if they had a ceremonial purpose and were not used in battle, in spite of some of the pictures. The face shields must have been costly to make, and the first time one was taken into battle, it would have been hacked on severely. |
Michael S. Rivet wrote: |
Silly notion: Maybe the faces were to help identify the man behind the helmet? In a number of those images, the face on the shield bears some resemblance to the face of the man who carries it. Of course, that doesn't answer the buckler issue. |
Wolfgang Armbruster wrote: |
My personal stab in the dark:
My impression is that this whole face-shield thing is at least partly a fashion-trend. With the beginning of the renaissance having grotesque style armour seems to become very popular. If we trust the depictions in the Paulus Kal manuscript people also used face-bucklers like in the picture below. |