Verein für Historische Waffenkunde [Hrsg.]: Zeitschrift für historische Waffen- und Kostümkunde: Organ des Vereins für Historische Waffenkunde (3.1902-1905)

7. Heft.

segments, and there is a latten spike in the centres.
The backplate consists of five laminar plates; it is
highly mobile, lending itself readily to the mus-
cular action of the back. The garde-reins is in four
plates, the lowest being pointed at intervals. The
tases are in two plates; as also the tuilles, which
are pointed. The espaliers would appear to be
modern work — they closely resemble in form
those of the Paris suit. The coudes are pointed
and not quite a pair. The gauntlets have the
sharply pointed cuffs of the period, with large gads
of latten over the knuckles, and smaller ones of
steel over the lower finger joints. They are also

i#5
the great collections were being formed, must have
been both important and lucrative; but it would
have been much better to have repaired the old
plates when present, however decayed, and to have
strengthened them —- frequently, however, the
pieces had been lost. It is remarkable that so
much has been preserved from the melting pot
over the long period of absolute indifference to
the interest and beauty of these things.
There is a mark on one of the knee-caps,
something like a crown surmounted by what seems
to be an uplifted arm, but it is very indistinct.
The Barde (Rossharnisch). The chamfron

Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde.

Fig. i.
modern, though one must greatly admire the work-
manship. The leg armour, as shown in Plate I, is
authentic and simply admirable; the genoullieres
have a latten ridge over the kneecaps, and the
wings are butterfly shaped. The sollerets are ä la
poulaine in an extreme form, and the long tips are
not in this case detachable at pleasure.
It is very rarely that one can meet with such
an authentic and beautiful armour. The spurs are
long, with six-pronged rowels. It is dangerous to
commit ones’self to a positive opinion as to the
authenticity or otherwise of individual plates of a
harness of this early period without having the
suit taken to pieces; but the only restorations, in
the sense of modern work, seem to me to lie in
the espaliers and gauntlets. The German industry
of armour restoration, at a time when so many of

Fig. 2.
(Rossstirn) has hinged cheek-pieces, it swells out
over the nosebone and the plate is bent forward
over the nostrils. The earguards are bordered
with latten. A long spike rises from a rosette in
the centre of the forehead. The crinet (Kauz, Hals-
stück) is in eleven plates; and the testera is connected
by hooks and eyes. The peytral (Fürbug) is in
five plates hinged together, and it has the usual
bosses over the pectoral muscles. The crupper
(Gelieger) consists of six plates on either side,
riveted together. No flanchers, for connecting the
peytral and crupper are present. The saddle
(Krippensattel), with its fittings, is of rather a later
date than the armour for the man. You have a
reproduction of the harness for man and horse on
Fig. II.
Nu m b e r 5 5 5. (Fig. 3). This very remarkable har-