Dresden Armoury

[Jim McDougall]

Tatyana, thank you so much for sharing the wonderful treasures held in this museum! You did a remarkable job in capturing this in a most difficult photographic challenge as Vandoo has noted. What a very kind gift, especially for those of us who will not likely get to that apparantly quite impressive museum.
With the wide array of arms and armour displayed, it will be interesting to see what observations and comments will be responded concerning them from those with key knowledge on these fields of study. It's been a long time since the interesting thread that discussed Japanese arms and armour in Europe as you have mentioned (where did Radu disappear to anyway?
That was a terrific example of the confluence of European and ethnographic weapons and the trade dynamics that were far more complex than often realized.
Very nicely done Tatyana, and thank you again!!
Very best regards,
Jim