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Ave Celtic 505,
If you can't find it, I suggest that you check with Joe Piel of Lonely Mountain Forge as he has a splendid Thracian Helment. As soon as I can save up the money,I am going to order one. I'm not certain what his web address is, but perhaps one of our colleagues on the Board can tell you. I realize this isn't much help, but I'm at work and have about 4 minutes left on my break.
Good Luck and please keep me informed on how it goes
Salve
Vitruvius a.k.a Larry Mager
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Could it be the Deepeeka "Alexander the Great" helmet? AH6124, second row down on this page:
http://www.deepeeka.co.in/helmet1.html
One of my legionaries got one of these to use for later Thracian, Carthaginian, etc. But since it's a not-entirely-accurate translation of a not-entirely-accurate illustration in one of Connolly's books, he had to modify it some. It has the fixed ear pieces (plain, not embossed), small hinged earflaps, and the larger cheekpieces--with the result that the face is almost completely covered! He lopped off the fixed flaps, removed the small hinged ones, and moved the larger ones back. Much more workable helmet, now! Really a decent piece, with some tweaking.
Now the challenge is to find a vendor that has it in stock, eh? Good luck!
Matthew
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No it wasn't the Alexander helmet. Actually you can see a picture of the reconstructed helmet on the hetairoi.de website. One of their reenactors has it. Its a great reconstruction and probably one of my favorite helms, I remember it being expensive though, with a black crest too. I know the website sold a musculata too that was another amazing reproduction, I want to say they had the name fabricae in their title? But I cant find any website with that in their name that sells reenactor gear. It was such a long time ago its bugging me I cant remember it and I was hoping to perhaps get that helmet. I appreciate your guys responses though, hopefully somebody should remember or know what im talking about.
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hey thanks! I knew it was called fabrica something. I'll look into the international orders. Thats too bad about the illness, I hope its nothing serious.
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Wow, I had no idea it was made in so many segments and then riveted together. It's not something I expected to see in Hellenistic times.
~Theo
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I would like to know if somebody knows where is the helmet that Celtic505 posted before. Some museum? maybe a private collection?
Thanks
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It can be seen in the Louvre in Paris