Silvering iron helmet

[jvrjenivs]

Thanks for the replies. Just as I thought, It could not be done so easily. This only reinforces the idea that silvering of iron objects was probably done by some type of foil application in the Roman period.

And to go further about the historical version. We know that it was a seperate sheet of silver added to a lot of finds of facemasks from Nijmegen. There a thin silver sheet was glued to the iron base. Also for a lot of late Roman helmets we also know there was a seperate sheet of Silver attached over a iron bowl.