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Message:: [QUOTE="otlichnik, post: 4022746, member: 109731"][ATTACH=full]1057913[/ATTACH] While most of my antiquities collection consists of Roman stuff, with a minor in Avar, I also have some medieval items. On top the top left are a pair of elbow cops from a suit of armour, German school, c.1580s. This pair was once in the Met collection and are pictured in both G.C. Stone's "A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in all Countries and All Times" and Viollet Le Duc's "Encyclopedie Medievale". Top middle is an elbow cop from the the early 16th c. It is an excavated find from Austria. Top right is an upper vambrace (arm armour) purchased about 20 years ago in London. It dates to the 15th century. Given it dating and the style of preservation, especially on the inside, I corresponded with "The Medieval Armour from Rhodes" author Walter Karcheski who agreed that it might be from the large part of the uncatalogued bit of that collection that was dispersed in the 19th century after restoration. On the left part of the shelf is a 16th century Ottoman mace purchased long ago in Sarajevo. On the right is a 13th century English mace head. SC[/QUOTE]