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Christopher H
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| Norbert Keller wrote: | | These look so cool:) I would like one of them. |
Woah, what is the puffy sleeved one? Any details?
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Paul Hansen
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| Posted: Thu 22 Oct, 2009 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| Roger Hooper wrote: | | I changed my mind. I want this suit of English armour. |
That does look really good! Who made it?
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Artis Aboltins
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| Paul Hansen wrote: | | Roger Hooper wrote: | | I changed my mind. I want this suit of English armour. |
That does look really good! Who made it? |
Looks to me as Robert Macpherson work,,,
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Adam D. Kent-Isaac
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| Posted: Thu 22 Oct, 2009 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| Christopher H wrote: | | Norbert Keller wrote: | | These look so cool:) I would like one of them. |
Woah, what is the puffy sleeved one? Any details? |
I think that one is a German parade harness, at the Met museum, I believe. I saw it in person and was astonished by its construction. It's made to imitate puffed and slashed fashion that was very popular at the time, like this:
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Gregory J. Liebau
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I'd have a Maximilian harness made similarly if not absolutely like Johann von Sachsen's harness (c. 1530) that's currently housed with the Rustkammer collection in Vienna. The photograph I took is not extremely sharp, and because of the lighting it is hard to tell from the photograph, but there is a very distinct black and white vertical design on the entire harness that makes it look very wicked.
I'm also much thinner than good ol' Johann would have been at the time this was commissioned, but assuming I won't be able to afford such work until my thirties or forties, I may catch up...
-Gregory
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Reece Nelson
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| Posted: Thu 22 Oct, 2009 10:32 pm Post subject: My Armour |
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I would love to have this suit of High German Gothic! This Tobias Capwell's armour, and was filmed during the making of the mini feries "Weapons that made Britain"
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Bennison N
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That's an easy one for me...
Qianlong's armour from the period of The Ten Campaigns.
"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance" - Confucius
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Craig Peters
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I think I'd go with a (late) 12th century suit of mail, complete with mittens and chausses and padded aketon to go underneath. It's true that I really like some of the 14th and 15th century armour, but the 12th century is my favourite time period, so I'd still with that. I'd probably want a transitional early great helm to complete the kite, and a flat topped kite shield, sans boss.
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