Helmet from Armor Venue

[john m roberts]

An outfit called Armor Venue has a gladiator helmet I haven't seen before. They carry the usual Deepeeka helmets, but this one, while not a copy of an extant example, seems to have better proportions than the others. Has anybody handled one of these? Is it a new Deepeeka product? Take a look.

http://www.armorvenue.com/roman-helmets ... or-helmet/

[M. Demetrius]

Well, that's a generic MyrmilloThracian. The knobby part on the crest is where the Thracian Griffin would usually be, but the museum specimens generally have a narrow crest, not an inch and a half thick one. Leastwise that's what I've seen. The faceplate isn't really like what you generally see: the eyeholes are usually on a separate piece that can be opened without taking off the helmet.

But like you said, it's not like any extant example.

[F. Antili Oregensis]

I picked up the same helmet for $150 from a company in Houston.

[F. Antili Oregensis]

http://wholesalearmor.com .
$159.99 under the Roman Helmet icon.

[Aurelianus]

This helmet is most looking like a helmet of a Hoplomachus I think!
But it is no reconstruction at all.
Unfortunately there is no reconstruction of an acceptable quality on the market yet (apart from custom-made ones)

[john m roberts]

This is something that puzzles me. We have so many complete gladiator helmets, yet the manufacturers of "replicas" always get the proportions wrong, usually supplying a huge, bulbous visor that ruins the proportions of the helmet, instead of the trim, close-fitting visors of the originals. I grant that the original designs didn't make much sense, constructing the visors of eight or ten separate pieces when a single, pierced plate would have sufficed. This particular helmet, while not a replica, at least seems a bit closer in proportion than the usual product.

[M. Demetrius]

John, same question could be asked about practically any helmet. Why go to all the trouble to make it from sheet metal, and polish the heck out of it, only to end up with a totally non-historical design? I dunno.

There are ample genuine relics available, so why not just do it as right as can be done in the first place?

[Lorrieluck]

A friend of mine bought this one for her boyfriend. Yes, it is a poor replica. To add insult to injury they refused to refund the shipping that she had to spend to send it back. They really didn't care about the service at all. Armor Venue is only in it for the collectible...not the collector.