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Topic: Burgundian archer brace.
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Boudhewein
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posted 03-09-2006 11:46 AM
   
Just finished with the first try to make an archer brace for my kit. Some feedback?  [ 03-29-2006: Message edited by: Boudhewein ] -------------------- I reject your reality and substitute my own
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Boudhewein
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posted 03-10-2006 02:28 AM
The brace is for a archer in the Burgundian army of Charles the Bold in the 1470's. I'm actually making a kit for a archer (duh) from the dutchy of Brabant (actually from Breda) who joined the 5th compangie d'Ordannance. This sunday we have a weaponstraining in Eindhoven, so I'll try to make a picture. The drawing in the leather is actually a symbol worn by the mounted archer bodyguard of Charles the Bold during the 1470's. The edges are stamped, but the symbol itself, the firestrike, is freehand. I'm actually planning to make some more for sale. But with other prints. Both religious as vulgair  . There will be one strap on each side and a bronze buckle. -------------------- I reject your reality and substitute my own
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chef de chambre
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posted 03-11-2006 10:13 AM
Very cool!Most of the surviving ones (later, of course), are for hunting. I've never seen one with the Fusil and briquette with crossed arrows before - it sort of implies coming from a central supply, rather than being a privately owned piece, and I'm not sure such things were issued from a central depot - Gardiner would have the answers, in 'L'Artillery..." -------------------- Bob R.
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Boudhewein
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posted 03-29-2006 04:37 AM
I found several pictures of fully armed and armored archers with braces, in the osprey book: henry V and the conquest of France. There are several illustrations of the Warwick Pageant. For a friend I'm making another one, based on a pelgrim badge.
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jboerner
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posted 03-29-2006 05:10 AM
Are there surviving examples made from leather? I only know the mary rose examples made from horn or bone, as well as images showing such (like the luttrell psalter and some austrian images)-------------------- Diu Minnezīt
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posted 03-09-2006 12:35 PM
can you wear the bracer and make pic to how you set it on up and wear it on the arm.
