Hallo John,<br>
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here some more informations about the book. First of all I think I must revise my statement about the color. I am no longer sure if there were most pictures in color or only some pictures. The book is out of print now - although Oxbow seems to have it yet - and I only had a copy in a public library in my hands some years ago. I made for myself some photocopies and today I can't recognize if the original photo in the book was in color or not. But I think there were only about 7 large sized color charts.<br>
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For sure I can say the book contains a catalog part with 122 selected helmets, descriptions, detail pictures and paintings (of small details, when necessary). A common part contains the following chapters:<br>
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1. Greek Helmets<br>
- from geometric time<br>
- Cyprian<br>
- Illyric<br>
- Corinthian<br>
- Apulic-Corinthians<br>
- Chalkidician<br>
- Hellenistic<br>
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2. Helmets of the "Urnenfelderkultur" (Urn Field Culture)<br>
- Cone and Bell-shaped<br>
- early iron-temporal comb helmets<br>
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3. Italic and Alpine Helmets<br>
- Hallstatt<br>
- Italic with "Krempe" ("Edge of a Head ?")<br>
- over-italic cone helmets and Tessine helmets<br>
- Italic with Front Throat<br>
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4. Celtic Helmets<br>
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5. Roman Helmets<br>
- Etruscan-roman<br>
- Roman<br>
- One Helmet and Greave of a Gladiator<br>
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These chapters show the development of the different types, again with many photos and detail paintings, great (German ) text. There are several authors for the particular chapters, beside Hermann Pflug: Angelo Bottini, Götz Waurick, P. Schauer, F.-W. von Hase, M. Egg and Ulrich Schaaf. The book displays the scientific knowledge of 1988, You won't find new pictures of the Guttmann Collection. Especially on roman helmets You should look at Marcus Junkelmann "Römische Helme" (Roman Helmets) or Junkelmann / Born "Römische Kampf- und Turnierrüstungen" (Roman combat and tournament arms). Both beautiful books with a lot of (for me until then) unknown helmets.<br>
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I found with the help of Google the following sources of supply:<br>
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www.vcoins.com/frankkovac...57&large=1<br>
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www.oxbowbooks.com/bookin...tion/Oxbow<br>
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I hope, this helps.<br>
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Uwe <p></p><i></i>