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Let\'s see your Signifer and Aquilifer animal pelts
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I've always thought that the Signifer and Aquilifer had the best look with the animal skins over top the helmet and legs tied around the neck. I've seen many different impressions, some using bears, wolves, lions...Did any of the ancient writers mention the types of animal pelts used? Bears and wolves would have been common in Europe at the time, lions were also fairly common in the East and Africa.

What would be appropriate to use today? Foxes and Coyote's are readily available for reasonable prices while lions pelts are probably not allowed to be traded anymore unless they have an old provenance. Would any North American cats be a suitable substitute like mountain lions, coyotes? Let's see what people are using.
"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones"

Antony
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Let\'s see your Signifer and Aquilifer animal pelts - by Jay - 06-02-2012, 09:46 PM

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