I don't know where to start... Sallet: Has a weird slit behind the visor; some say it used to have an integrated bevor. Neck guard had a strip of brass riveted on in an attempt to pimp it up a little; looks ugly as sin though.
Bevor: Likely a 19th century piece.
Breast & backplate: I have some doubts about the breastplate; the fluting seems a little odd compared to original 15th century pieces. The backplate is original though.
Pauldrons: A typical case of "too good to be true". I've read somewhere that they're 19th century work.
Arms: Read somewhere that they're modern. When it was sold from castle Hohenaschau in germany, it had one of the arms it's displayed with today an the other arm was from a jousting armor, now replaced with a matching piece.
Gauntlets: Modern. The thumb consists of a single plate which makes them too stiff for movement.
Legs: When the suit came to the collection it didn't have legs so they made a copy of the pair of gothic legs from the DHM in Berlin and slapped a Landshut armourer's mark on them.
Horse armor: The horse armor has a 16th century maximilian-style saddle because the original one went missing before it left castle Hohenaschau. At one point someone decided to attach strips of leopard fur to the lower edges of the crupper and peytrel thinking it would look good. They were eventually removed.
Henry Rivera
Those are things I definetly wouldn't notice. What is the best known, all original gothic piece that still exists today? I read some stuff that a lot of original pieces were ruined in the 19th century, like the notorious visored barbute.
Cooper Brooks
There isn't a single 100% complete "german" gothic armor. The Helmschmied armors from the Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer in Vienna are probably the best surviving pieces. The armor on the left has a sallet which originally belonged to a different suit; the besagews went missing in the 19th century. The armor on the right is missing the reinforcement plate for the left pauldron and a brass stripe on the backplate. Both armors belonged to Archduke Maximilian I; the suit on the right was later gifted to Sigismund of Tyrol which is why many call it the Sigismund armor. The incomplete suit in the back belonged to Sigismund iirc.
David Rodriguez
whats the fucking difference?
Eli Butler
Those pics are both Milanese. Gothic was posted down below in the thread. Very cool, thanks for the info
Zachary Carter
oh yeah, still no answer on what the rest of Europe was wearing though
Luke Thomas
>still no answer on what the rest of Europe was wearing though Most wore italian export armor. So far I don't know of any armor workshops outside Italy, Germany, Austria and Flanders in the 15th century. If you want to see what 15th century english, french, burgundian or spanish armor looked like you're better off looking at effigies or paintings from that time. They tend to give you a better idea what the armor looked like than the 15th century suits in museums which were more often than not thrown together from mismatching pieces for the sake of having a full suit on display.
Justin Rivera
Locally produced stuff and imports.
Pic related was a Franco-Burgundian armour IIRC. It's a mixture of styles really. Armour styles could really be something of a range rather than styles set in stone.
Robert Martinez
Plate armor production was very controlled, there was really only a few major centers of production and almost all armor came from them.
