Photoessay cont'd: Armor at the Met, part two

Here's the second half of the pile of pictures from the hall of arms and armor at the Metropolitan.

The photo quality on some of these isn't the best--shooting with a hand-held camera through display glass with whatever light you've got in the room isn't ideal. A lot of these are meant as potential references for topics we discuss in armor class, though--photo examples of real suits of armor to illustrate various concepts like the padded leather fencing doublet you saw in the previous post, or examples of attachment methods in this one. This one is largely all partial or complete suits of various kinds of plate, for the most part.

Again, all photos are courtesy of Kaitlin Fara.

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