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Sir James A:

--- Quote from: Sir Gerard de Rodes on 2011-10-15, 15:18:14 ---
--- Quote from: James Anderson III on 2011-10-15, 01:22:00 ---If you want a cheap and easy way to rivet the holder to the helm, it's just drilling 2 holes then using "speed rivets", which are small rivets that you attach with a little rivet gun. You can pick up the gun & some misc starter rivets for around $15.

I haven't really seen much of any plumes pre 15th-ish century, I think the torse and mantle is more appropriate to the earlier periods, if that's of any concern.

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Alot of the illustrations in the 14th century manuscript, Guiron le Courtois c. 1370-1380, have knights with feathers as their crests, or at least part of.
This is about the clearest pictoral evidence for the use of plumes in the 14th century;
http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/ConsulterElementNum?O=IFN-08100550&E=JPEG&Deb=45&Fin=45&Param=C

Or here`s another in a manuscript with several Arthurian stories, c. 1380-1385
 http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/ConsulterElementNum?O=IFN-08100550&E=JPEG&Deb=45&Fin=45&Param=C

G.

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Oh wow, neat, I've never heard of that book. The second link opened to the same as the first but I saw the book with the crested helms. Thanks Sir Gerard!

Sir Gerard de Rodes:
I must have copied and pasted the same link lol, try this one...
http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/ConsulterElementNum?O=IFN-08100427&E=JPEG&Deb=11&Fin=11&Param=C

Karren Larsdatter`s site is a fantastic source of historical illustrations and pictures;
www.larsdatter.com
G.

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