11-16-2009, 03:45 AM
Quote:Well, if the metal is relevant for defensive purposes, silver would not really be a good choice.
Well, it likely wouldn't be entirely made of silver anyway. The armour would just be silvered or gilded bronze or iron.
Quote:Thus we are left with bronze and brass that when cleaned and polished looked like gold. Do you think that the decoration was beaten out deirectly or applied?
What do you mean by applied? I suspect that the decoration was beaten out directly and then painted.
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
