Sunday 18 February 2018

Arabian Barbute


Now I'm not sure this helmet as a real historical equivalent at all, although did find a few images of turbans wrapped around helmets.

Its open faced barbute in style, made from plastic with a plastic ring around the crown to give a turban style Arabic look and then painted.


The helm was found within a batch of theatre kit, unlabelled or marked so who knows what it was used for.


Now its part of larp kit.


Sunday 11 February 2018

Saracen MkII

From the same batch of helms as the last post all picked up at bring and buy kit fair.








Sunday 4 February 2018

Arabic Helm

This lookalike Persian/Arabic/Saracen style helmet is made from fibreglass and has string mail around its rim, it's about cheap a lookalike as you can get before you go into toy helmets but is ok for lrp and theatre where its the impression you need not accuracy or actual protection.



Tuesday 30 January 2018

Czapka


This helmet called a Czapka is in style used typically by 19th C Royal Russian, German and the Polish Uhlan Cavalry Regiments.

Made of pressed leather.


The Czapka origins lie in the very late 18th Century when a square-topped (4 pointed) Shako was used by Austrians infantry. 


Czapka is Belorussian words translate to English simply as a cap.








The helmet in the shape shown here was adapted by various cavalry regiments after the Napoleonic wars, mainly those of Poland, Russian, Prussia, Germany and Austria. Although the British and French did have a version for some of their cavalry regiments without the square top.


The helmet continued to be used by Cavalry regiments right up to first few weeks of world war one, before becoming a helm just used for parade grounds only.


This is a theatrical quality copy, not reenactment copy.