07-06-2008, 11:25 AM
The Deepeeka 'Italo-Corinthian' is, as Matt Amt says, quite a reasonable reproduction of an early 5 C BC Corinthian helmet found at Olympia. Nor is it "too thin".......
Late Corinthians,being individually made, varied in thickness from helmet to helmet, and each helmet varied in thickness in different parts, like modern tank armour, being thickest where most vulnerable. An average of 0.75-1.25 mm is about right...this equates to 18(1.03 mm) or even 20(0.81 mm) gauge sheet brass, and this is what almost all repros are made of......the Deepeeka helmet is 18 gauge. It's weight is about right too, and it's only real flaw, in common with most modern repro's, is that it is of uniform thickness all over......
As to 'yellow' or 'red' brass....see attached well-preserved example.....
Late Corinthians,being individually made, varied in thickness from helmet to helmet, and each helmet varied in thickness in different parts, like modern tank armour, being thickest where most vulnerable. An average of 0.75-1.25 mm is about right...this equates to 18(1.03 mm) or even 20(0.81 mm) gauge sheet brass, and this is what almost all repros are made of......the Deepeeka helmet is 18 gauge. It's weight is about right too, and it's only real flaw, in common with most modern repro's, is that it is of uniform thickness all over......
As to 'yellow' or 'red' brass....see attached well-preserved example.....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
