[BenLurkin]

Of possible interest

[Pollster1]

Excellent collection of helmet pictures, but they forgot two recent ones:

[wardaddy]

I highly encourage everyone to scroll the pics

Amazing

Still miss GoetzvonBerlichingen

Wish he was still here...right up his alley

[bigbob]

Wow, very cool! If I saw an enemy coming at me in one of those, I think I’d just fold...

The Horned Helmet does look pretty gay however.

[RandallFlagg]

This one still screams cool:

[katana]

Noticing the eye slits in all these helmets all I could think of was how the English archers at Agincourt dispatched the dismounted and mud trapped French knights. Those slits were just wide enough for a long bodkin to get past.

[all the best]

Thanks. Many are extraordinarily beautiful.

[Verbosus]

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[Dilbert San Diego]

Is Hillary Clinton in there? Her hair often looks like she’s wearing a helmet.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

Wild. You can tell guys had money to spend on some of those.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The Frog-mouth helmet reminds me of the challenges faced by WWII pilots trying to land a Vought F4-U Corsair.
Nothing much below eye level is visible.

[karnage]

This post/thread is wonderful... and one of the reasons I love FR!

[KeyLargo]

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Amazing.

[Twinkie]

By the end of WWII, the German soldiers were mostly wearing
flimsy cloth caps. The American boys were wearing hard
steel helmets. I guess Hitler had spent all the money for
the war on some tunnel or the other so he would have a
secure bunker for retreat purposes.

[butlerweave]

Japanese Helmets are the Best

[Mister Da]

After spending an hour or so, with help, putting on several layers of clothing & armor, you suddenly realize the venison you ate for breakfast was ROTTEN.

What do you do? Your crap in your armor, & pee, too. Often. I doubt you even dismount your war horse. Poor horse.

After a few days of this, you get diaper rash. It itches bad, burns like the devil, not just your butt, also your legs, but you can’t scratch.

Imagine fighting with this on in the Middle East heat. A puppy in a hot car in the Walmart parking in July lot in July is better off.

Being a knight in shining armor had its problems.

I’ll bet the lightweight, nimble archers just laughed & laughed, though far out of earshot of some very irritated knights.

[VanShuyten]

Bkmk

[Albion Wilde]

Fascinating article and amazing artisanship!