Button – Also known as a pommel nut, pommel bolt, capstan rivet, or tang nut. In some swords, the button is screwed on to the end of the tang to hold the grip on.

Pommel – The counter-weight at the end of the grip.

Grip – Handle

Tang – The hidden part of the blade which the grip is mounted to.

Shoulder – The corner portion where the tang and the blade meet.

Guard – A blanket term for all the parts that protect the hand.

Quillon – Extended portions of the guard.

Écusson – or quillon block. The metal center where the quillons meet and all parts of the guard attach to.

Ricasso – Unsharpened portion of the blade which extends from the grip to the end of the guard.

vivalundinproductions:

Unknown artist

Parade helmet

17th century

France

Iron or steel and gold embossed and gilt

frenchhistory:

Armor of Infante Luis, Prince of Asturias, 1712
Made by Drouar (possibly André Drouart)
France (Paris)
Blued and gilt steel; gilt brass; silk; cotton; metallic yarn; paper

@credits

This royal armor, possibly the last made in Europe, is believed to have been presented to the five-year-old Infante Luis (1701–1724), prince of Asturias, by his great-grandfather Louis XIV of France (1638–1715, r. from 1643). Luis was the first Spanish-born Bourbon heir to the throne of Spain and ruled briefly as Luis I in 1724.

The armor is signed and dated on the backplate: “Drouar Ordinaire du Roi aux Heaume à Paris 1712” (Drouar, armorer-in-ordinary to the King, at the Sign of the Helm in Paris, 1712). The signature may refer to André Drouart, a royal armorer recorded from 1674 to 1688 who must have been one of the last armorers active in France by 1712.

Remarkable for its state of preservation, the armor retains its lustrous blue and gold surfaces and nearly all its original red-silk lining. The gilt rivet heads are of heraldic design—the lion of León, the castle of Castile, and the fleur-de-lis of France—representing the dynastic claims to which Luis was heir.

explodingrocks:

Tetsu Sabiji Nuri Eboshi Kabuto Kuro Nuri Go Mai Dou Gosuk. Edo period

Originally displayed at the Arashiyama Museum in Japan and sold by ShogunArt.com The armour belonged to a Karo (jodai) Ando from the Tokugawa family in Kishu, Check their page for more information.

Unusual to see the shoulder armour like that, styled off from the shoulder strap (Watagami) I Love those Kawari Kabuto’s. This one is inscribed with “Hachiman Dai Bozatsu” (the god of war)

tatteredbanners:

Chivalry by Sir Frank (Bernard) Dicksee

valar-morghulis:

riddaren by dchan