[TheForge] Armour Stand

[Ries Niemi]

I dont know if there are many pictures online or not, but the place to look would be the Stibbert Museum, in Florence Italy. Will he pay for a research trip?

Stibbert was the great grandson (only son of an only son) of the Governor General of Bengal, and inherited a huge fortune. It is rumored he was the child of the Englishman and the Italian maid- regardless, he grew up in Italy, went to proper school in England, and was rich, cultured, and bi-lingual, and collected probably the largest, and best, private collection of armor in the world, between something like 1880 and 1900, about the same time that a lot of large european estates were being broken up at auction.
He had dozens of suits of armor- the largest collection, and the best, of 15th and 16th century stuff, the third largest collection of Samurai armor, after two in Japanese museums, horse armor, childrens armor, camel armor, even elephant armor. Plus literally hundreds of pikes, hundreds of swords, hundreds of early firearms, and thats just the arms and armor section of his musuem. When he died, he left it all, along with the three interconnected villas that house it, to the city of Florence.

http://www.museostibbert.it/

if you do a google image search, like this--
http://www.google.com/search?q=armor+stibbert&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=fyOxUb-3OpGYigLk_4HYDw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1322&bih=899
you will see they use rectangular bases, but no visible supports in back- my guess is that the pros do custom armatures INSIDE the armor, and go down thru the feet- I never turned a set of armor upside down- are the feet open on the bottom? or are they armored on the soles as well?
My guess is they are open, and they go up thru the feet, and make wooden spacers that hold the verticals in place, and assemble the armor over the stand, putting the helm on last.

ries


On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Daniel Kretchmar wrote:

> Evening folks.
> 
> I've been asked to make an armor stand for a full suit of plate armor with
> a helm, a mail undershirt and a padded gambson. He would like it to stand
> in his living room so staking it to the ground is not an option. Does
> anyone have any pictures/experience/links/advice that they can give me?
> 
> Danr
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> "Estattu alvarligt, nei?"
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