Great rare old photos of Arms & Armour. -- myArmoury.com

Merv Cannon

If you are stuck at home sometime on a quiet, rainy day, you might want to take a look at this site and experience some wonderful old b&w arms & arnour photos. They are from the " Elenco delle opere secondo il Catalogo Angelucci (1890)" and are available here .....
http://www.artito.arti.beniculturali.it/Armer...13.asp?L=A
which is part of the " L'Armeria Reale di Torino" ( thats Torino, Italy, not the one in Madrid, Spain) here...
http://www.artito.arti.beniculturali.it/Armer...rmeria.htm
For convienience, I have included a translated page of the contents of the Catalogue which uses an Alphabetical list, Its shoud be pointed out that the contents of each group belong to the letter on the left and not on the right hand side.....
Enjoy !

Bruno Giordan · Posted: Mon 26 Nov, 2007 6:47 am Post subject:

Human translation

First three series, A. A’. e A’’. are dedicated to “classical” weapons made out of stone, bronze and iron.

Series B. is for complete armours for foot and horse combat,

Series C. armour parts,

Series D. horse's pertainings,

Series E. helms,

Series F. shields,

Series G. swords,

Series H. daggers,

Series I. hitting weapons = maces and hammers

Series J. polearms

Series L. launch weapons

Series M. long firearms

Series N. short firearms

Serie N’ gun’s parts and accessories

Series O flags

Serie P models,

Series Q. diverse objects

Series S. weapons and objects belonging to King Carlo Alberto

Series T. weapons and objects belonged to King Vittorio Emanuele II

Series U. weapons and objects belonged to King Umberto I.

Series K. WW1 weapons,

Series K’. WW2 weapons

Series R. weapons and objects belonged to King Vittorio Emanuele III.

NOTICE

There seems to be just a very low number of objects available online, at least if I browse with Mozilla I see just a page for letter.

Merv Cannon · Posted: Mon 26 Nov, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject: Old Armour photos

Merv Cannon · Posted: Tue 27 Nov, 2007 1:18 am Post subject: Old Photos of Arms & Armour

I'm still finding amazing stuff, and most of the photo-quality is really excellent.......... check out this all steel little Crossbow......

http://www.artito.arti.beniculturali.it/Armer...ivo=PP1784

Bruno Giordan · Posted: Thu 29 Nov, 2007 2:42 am Post subject:

Maybe some problems with my sight ... too little thing get unnoticed by me even with glasses. Aging process has definitely started ...

Here to help anyway if terminology seems abstruse, keep in mind that classic archeology in Italy uses a nineteenth century style language.