02-25-2009, 05:03 AM
Quote:Quote:A rough translation of the thread from which those pictures were taken seems to state that the leather backing as seen there is a reconstruction, and not original.....but the corselet itself, beneath the scales is still clearly leather, as shown by the photos you posted in the other thread of the original partial pieces......
Discolouration from some sort of lining is visible on some parts (the rust is a different colour along the edges), but there is no way of knowing whether the backing was leather or not. Of course, it almost certainly was, but no traces of leather remain that can be seen on those photos (the find seems to have been in a pretty poor state of preservation, though the arrangement of the scales was not disturbed).
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
