12-10-2009, 08:49 PM
Where you say that the nail/pin is similar to a large upholstery type would that be of square cross section shank, why I ask is that after looking again at the picture you show there is at the ten-o-clock position on the flange a hole that gives appearence of having been square and also another at the four-o-clock.
The other hole opposite to the dome head nail/pin has had damage to it where the flange edge has been pushed over it a bit, it was of course from this seven or eight-o-clock position that I began to go around the edge anti-clockwise to determine that it had a rolled edge.
I have done this kind of thing of rolled edges on other objects myself to give greater strength to things, then as you say it is very delicate so it looks like this was done to make the flange that little bit stronger.
It does make one wonder just how it was used on a shield for I'm sure it would not have taken much of a blow to have completely destroyed it, might we then begin to think along the lines of removable parade items. This begins to open up a new line of thought about the infantry also having parade kit similar to the cavalry soldier.
The other hole opposite to the dome head nail/pin has had damage to it where the flange edge has been pushed over it a bit, it was of course from this seven or eight-o-clock position that I began to go around the edge anti-clockwise to determine that it had a rolled edge.
I have done this kind of thing of rolled edges on other objects myself to give greater strength to things, then as you say it is very delicate so it looks like this was done to make the flange that little bit stronger.
It does make one wonder just how it was used on a shield for I'm sure it would not have taken much of a blow to have completely destroyed it, might we then begin to think along the lines of removable parade items. This begins to open up a new line of thought about the infantry also having parade kit similar to the cavalry soldier.
Brian Stobbs
