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Main => The Armoury => Topic started by: Lord Dane on 2014-04-01, 00:45:48
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Acquired this beauty by chance on ebay. Could not resist. (Wife will kill me - I better hide it)
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Wicked awesome! About how much if you don't mind me asking?
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$100 + shipping
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nice find
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(Wife will kill me - I better hide it)
Ah, but isn't that the best way to die? :)
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$100 + shipping
Nice find indeed!
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Sweet acquisition! :)
You also get the fun of making a liner or are you going to wear it over a cervelliere?
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Acquired this beauty by chance on ebay. Could not resist. (Wife will kill me - I better hide it)
Lord Dane, I see it as my brotherly duty to maintain the martial harmony in your household. As such, I will accept the heavy responsibility of holding this helm in your name. I shall discreetly dispatch a squire to your lands with haste.
;)
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Acquired this beauty by chance on ebay. Could not resist. (Wife will kill me - I better hide it)
Lord Dane, I see it as my brotherly duty to maintain the martial harmony in your household. As such, I will accept the heavy responsibility of holding this helm in your name. I shall discreetly dispatch a squire to your lands with haste.
;)
Sorry Lord Rodney but I must decline your offer. I just cannot take seriously or trust a man staring back at me wearing a pig-faced bascinet. :P
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Dang.
My case may have been stronger if I had said “marital” instead of “martial”. Although, a “martial household” sounds interesting if you both practiced WMA. ;D
Nice find BTW!
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Nice find, Dane. How will you hide it from the wife?
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Simple. Ill wear it. She never looks at my face anyways. 8)
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HA! I'm still lol'g at that...good one, man.
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Excellent! Good to see one without the cliche and as far as I know, incorrect, brass cross! (a plague upon one of my own helms that I must tackle, too...)
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I've been seeing new offerings with the brass cross underneath the ocular region...which I think is wrong as it isn't just decorative, it is supposed to strengthen that area of the helm. Saw one on sale for $175 (starting bid) but it don't look right to me.
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Sweet acquisition! :)
You also get the fun of making a liner or are you going to wear it over a cervelliere?
Got for Templar kit so liner likely.
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Nice buy! A steal for that price!
an aside on the historicity of brass oculars:
I've been seeing new offerings with the brass cross underneath the ocular region...which I think is wrong as it isn't just decorative, it is supposed to strengthen that area of the helm. Saw one on sale for $175 (starting bid) but it don't look right to me.
The brass ocular thing is just a 'cheaper' way to mimic what people are seeing in manuscripts. Historically it was most likely real gold leaf or painting, but the underlying metal is steel on all surviving examples. The brass thing kind of caught on though, and has become a huge reenactorism.
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ya i was gonna say that. although i do love the brass on steel look better. sigh, it isn't very period lol. but only the few know lol ehhehehe
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Very cool acquisition!
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Great find!
I have more trouble find 14g. Templar era/13th circa. Helms
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Clang makes em to order I believe...
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Oooh! Nice! Stylish and fearsome. Only $100 too? Worth it.