Armour?

Aqtai · 14th September 2005, 02:58 PM

OK I understand, I'm afraid I don't have a more detailed picture, it was scanned from G. C. Stones' "Glossary...", which is why the quality isn't great. All I can do is link you to a slightly bigger scan:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/9...anstone0ep.jpg

About those Japanese laminated gauntlets, I have seen Turkish and Iranian armours with laminated vambraces that extended down to the knuckles. Unfortunately the only picture I have of one these, is a rather poor quality picture from Robinson's "Oriental Armour" of a 15th century Turkish armour, now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

It has to be said though these laminated vambraces look suspiciously like greaves. I saw this armour in the Met about four years ago, it has now been placed on an equestrian figure, and the vambraces are no longer there.

A reconstruction of this armour is also on the front cover of an Osprey Men-At-Arms book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/08...=1#reader-page

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14th September 2005, 02:58 PM	#26
Aqtai Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Merseyside, UK Posts: 222	OK I understand, I'm afraid I don't have a more detailed picture, it was scanned from G. C. Stones' "Glossary...", which is why the quality isn't great. All I can do is link you to a slightly bigger scan: http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/9...anstone0ep.jpg About those Japanese laminated gauntlets, I have seen Turkish and Iranian armours with laminated vambraces that extended down to the knuckles. Unfortunately the only picture I have of one these, is a rather poor quality picture from Robinson's "Oriental Armour" of a 15th century Turkish armour, now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It has to be said though these laminated vambraces look suspiciously like greaves. I saw this armour in the Met about four years ago, it has now been placed on an equestrian figure, and the vambraces are no longer there. A reconstruction of this armour is also on the front cover of an Osprey Men-At-Arms book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/08...=1#reader-page