Breastplate

[ulfberth]

Originally Posted by fernando

A rather interesting peascod example, Thomas. No wonder it is that heavy, with the metal reinforcement.
May i ask an ignorant question about the collar piece, once Dirk didn't mention anything about it. Why does it have those crude iron rivets ? Could it have been removed for some reason and later riveted back in place ? Can't we see a little disalignment of the decoration in the center ?

The place were the iron rivets are now is were the brass rivets like the one on the sides used to be, they closed the old holes with iron placing the reinforcement. Its clear this breastplate was transformed as Lansquenet put it for a siege or a campaign, closing it more on the neck in the process providing more protection.