07-03-2009, 06:04 AM
Quote:And just for fun, here's the Baden Shield, which has not been published outside of a single article in German. These phots are with the permission of the museum, reproduced with their permission, and as I paid the freight I'll ask politely that y'all not re-publish them beyond your own personal use without the permission of the museum. (not me!)
It's nice--maybe too nice, and I've already run into one chap who has doubts about it. It does appear to have been made in pices rather than forged and hammered out of a single lump of bronze--if authentic, that would be GOOD NEWS for those of us fabricating bronze faced shields. Don't get excited by the textile adhering to the inside--that's a museum restoration technique from the past.
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Just out of curiosity, what's the article it's published in?
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
