[quote="Gordon Frye"]

Patrick Kelly wrote:

http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=7687 Too bad I drank my milk and ate my Wheaties as a kid! If I had more coffee and smoked cigarettes in my youth, maybe I'd fit into that armour. :mad: Of course, financing it would be a whole different sort of problem in and of itself... :eek: Allons! Gordon

Of course that presupposes you'd want to do anything in it that could even possibly put a dent in it either. If I ever had money to buy it I'd just mount it for display only. ;-)

Well, I could add that if I jousted I would want the very best armour I could afford. ;) :cool:

And there is something to the idea that it is meant to be used so use it. :D

( Edited: Oh Gordon any story to go with the pic or what is the source. Just curious :?: )

That's Toby Capwell and Arne Koets at Leeds recently. Capwell's lance slid up and off the ecranche that Koets was wearing, hit the salade just so, and "POP!" off went the helmet. As I understand it from reading the posts, Arne was temporarily knocked out, but stayed in the saddle, and only suffered a minor bruise from the encounter. Here are more pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanhodd/227...256848681/

Here is the thread on Armour Archive which discusses both the armour and the inciden, which begins on page 3:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=63560

Allons!

Gordon

I apologize for the 10 year necro, but I have a question regarding the armor;

What ever happened to it?

There are only a few set of old images depicting it and nothing else.

I read somewhere that Tobias Capwell sold it?

Is the suit lost in private hands then, not to be seen in public?

The new owner is in South Africa, IIRC.