Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Originally Posted by rand

Opening the book for the first time immediately saw quality photo's of identified early chain mail armor with close-up images of links showing construction. This alone made the book worth getting as their are few images of these available.

Rand, anyone can show photos of mail, unless it is properly photographed (the outside and inside of the links) identified and described it will not be to helpful. Much of the Mets mail is not properly described (round riveted, wedge riveted, alternating rows of solid and riveted links etc) and I have doubts about some of their descriptions, I hope this book does a better job.

There are actually a lot of close up images of mail armor from all ages and cultures available, here are some links with more mail armor images than anywere else in the world.

Indo-Persian mail.
https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiq...an-mail-armor/

Japanese mail.
https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiq...-armor-kusari/

European mail.
https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiq...an-mail-armor/

[Jens Nordlunde]

Nice to 'see' you again rand:-) - it has been a while.
As you have seen the forum has changed a lot since the 'old' days, so many with a lot of knowledge have left, and new ones have turned up.