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11th February 2012, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
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What a truly fascinating work.
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11th February 2012, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
Posts: 4,310
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Indeed!
And thank you so much, Swordfish, for posting all those fine details!!!   Best, Michael |
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25th February 2012, 12:10 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 129
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Smallest riveted rings ever manufactured?
Some time ago I visited a collecting colleague in Austria. He showed me a fragment of a mail shirt with probably the smallest riveted rings ever manufactured, with even more rings than the shirt in the aforementioned post, which is constructed of c. 140.000 rings. I was able to examine the shirt, and took a close up photo of some rings.
The diameter of the rings is c. 4-4.5 mm, the wire diameter is only 0.6 mm. The rivet is incredibly small. An area of 2*2 cm contains about 7*7=49 rings, compared with c.36 rings of the aforementioned shirt. Therefore a shirt with the same surface must be constructed of c.190.000 rings, all riveted! I have never seen a mail shirt with smaller rings. |
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