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18th February 2009, 11:18 PM
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Fantastisch, Michael !
Those guys had such great equipment; i wish i had one of those  .... But the girl's armour is spetacular  .By the way, have you been in this Museum? of course you have. Fernando |
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19th February 2009, 02:58 PM
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Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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Costume Armor
Hi Fernando,
I have been to the Hofburg Armory in Vienna several times but was of course mostly interested in their earliest firearms. I was given the singular chance to take special guns out of their cases and photograph them in broad daylighgt on a balcony some 80 meters above the streets of Vienna - imagine! In a while I will post some photos I took of armor and other interesting things which only they seem to have. Remember this is the Imperial Habsburg armory. BTW, that "girl's armor was actually made for a dude; this specialty of the 1510's to the 1540's is called costume armor and was widely en vogue not only at court "parties". Henry VIII also had some (see attachments): fashionable costume elements imitated in iron. The "horned helmet" illustrated below is the emblem of the Royal Armouries Leeds. Sort of early Renaissance knightly cross dressing ... Michael |
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19th February 2009, 03:27 PM
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At Vienna
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19th February 2009, 03:31 PM
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19th February 2009, 03:39 PM
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19th February 2009, 03:44 PM
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19th February 2009, 03:49 PM
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