Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe

Part II. of the _Trachten_. The jazerant coats of the fifteenth

century, of which several real specimens yet remain to us, are of a very similar construction. A third kind of Stud-work seems to differ from the articulated sort described above, in its basis being uniform and rigid, while the surface exhibits the same features, of a coloured ground-work spangled with bosses of gold or...