12-28-2015, 06:37 AM
I have seen these scales before on the auction site....Hermann Historica. However, they were made from copper alloy. I do not think the ones shown are silver....maybe tinned. Silver is very soft and does not afford the strength of other metals or alloys known at the time. Not to mention the cost of having an entire shirt made that way. Another important factor is that these scales are REALLY tiny...no more than 1cm from top to bottom. They are also VERY thin and flimsy.
I read somewhere a while ago that they may have been used as a decorative border at the end of armor. I do not know myself only to say they would not really make good armor. There is another armor with tiny thin scales but the scales are woven into a mail backing.
I read somewhere a while ago that they may have been used as a decorative border at the end of armor. I do not know myself only to say they would not really make good armor. There is another armor with tiny thin scales but the scales are woven into a mail backing.
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