Armour circa 1250
Reproduction armour patterned after David from folio 28 recto of the Maciejowski Bible. Shirt of flat rivetted mail with long sleeves, knee-length skirt with slits front and back and integral hood with ventail allowing a small face opening and to be fitted to the neck. Arms with extra rings forming a bent elbow and with tapered forarms. Helm of 5 pieces with cross applied to the center crease and eye-slots. Together with a padded coif, padded gorget, shirt, belts with custom buckles and mounts and a wooden sword. All clothing items of linen, hand-quilted. Armour made by Wade Allen. Clothing items by Tracy Justus.
Not for sale.
Great Helm circa 1380
Great helm.
Not for sale.
spurs circa 1380
Pair of spurs made for Aaron Toman. Cast brass. Leather straps.
Not for sale.
Child"s Halloween Costume circa 1400
Armour made as a halloween costume for a 5 year old. Composed of a bascinet with an aventail attached with tubular vervelles. Breastplate of simple globose form, rolls at the neck and arms. Spaulders, arms, Cuises with articulated poleyns, demi-greaves and sollerets of short pointed form. All on a wooden base. The armour was worn by Geoffrey for Halloween 2005. Tracy made a new grand assiette gambeson based on the Charles de Blois garment. The legharness is suspended from points on the arming doublet worn beneath the gambeson. The arms and spaulders are secured by points to the gambeson. Armour by Wade Allen, clothing by Tracy Justus.
Not for sale.
Reproduction Armour circa 1400.
Reproduction armour. Torso armour of plates covered in leather and attached by brass rivets. Made by Wade Allen, Aaron Toman and Charles Davis working as Valerius Armouries.
Not for sale.
Armour circa 1440
Reproduction armour. Early 15th century german armours with "Kastenbrust" breastplates. Breastplate taken from the surviving example in the City Museum of Vienna. Arms, pauldrons and clothing taken from the Knights of Christ from the Jan van Eyck altar-piece in St. Baron"s Church, Ghent. Comprising breast and back with wide waist lames and 5 plate fauld/culet, breast with applied reinforcing strips at the arms and shaped stop-rib at the neck, standing collar of rivetted mail with shoulder length flaired cape, small pauldrons of 6 plates shaped to the shoulder, the lower 4 plates with long sliding rivets at the back to allow forward motion, arms with a near tubular upper, cop articulated to the upper and lower by one plate and fully-encased lower of tulip shape composed of an inner and outer plate attached by 2 hinges on the outside and strap and buckle on the inside. Armour made of 1050 spring steel. Inner clothing of linen, outer of wool. Armour by Wade Allen, clothing by Tracy Justus.
Not for sale.
reproduction armour circa 1470
Armour of basic Italian form. Breastplate of "export" style. All parts hand made including the hinges, buckles and rosette-stamped washers.
Not for sale.
Geoffrey in Breastplate and arms circa 1480
Part armour. German style. Made as a costume for a 2 1/2 year old.
Not for sale.
Geoffrey in Cuirass and Helmet circa 1480
Breast back and helmet. Made for Geoffrey at 5 3/4 in Oct. 2004
Not for sale.
Barbute and Chapel de Fer 15th century
2 helmets. The left one is a mid 15th c. barbute. The right one is a chapel-de-fer patterned after one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Not for sale.
Geoffrey in puffed and slashed costume circa 1510
Costume for 4 1/2 year old. Costume by Tracy Justus
Not for sale.
Geoffrey in three-quarter suit circa 1510
Breast, back, tassets and floating arms for a Landsknecht costume for 4 1/2 year old. Breastplate with sliding gussets and waist lame. Large inward rolls at the neck and arms. Floating elbows on simple splint arms. Three piece backplate. Armour of 18g. and 21g. 1050 spring steel. Armour by Wade Allen, Costume by Tracy Justus
Not for sale.
Breastplate, fauld and long tassets circa 1540
Breasplate with fauld and tassets. Includes recessed polished bands, sliding gussets and hand made buckles and washers.
Not for sale.
Armour circa 1580
Reproduction armour. 2nd half of the 16th century munition armour. All pieces rough from the hammer and blackened. Composed of breast, back, gorget, tassets and shoulders. The associated morion and halbards are authentic pieces (all are of the correct style to be used with the armour). All rolls turned inwards and hand formed (without a jenny). Worn over silk doublet and velvet pants and with a velvet cape lined with linen. All buttons on the doublet and pants are custom cast pewter buttons based on 16th c. originals. Doublet patterned from the Heaver castle arming doublet. Armour made by Wade Allen, clothing by Tracy Justus. Mounted on Secret Agent - one of the horses Geoffrey uses in his riding lessons at Winslow Stables.
Not for sale.
Breastplate circa 1590
Breastplate. Simple peascod form. Raised from one piece. Rolls at the neck and arms. Flair at the waist.
Not for sale.
Half Armour circa 1600
Made for the Higgins Armory for their educational program.
Not for sale.
Cuirass and Sword circa 1620
Cuirass and simple rapier for a musketeer costume for 3 year old. Armour of 18g. 1050 spring steel.
Not for sale.
reproduction armour circa c. 1500
Armet a Rondel. Bowl raised from one piece, full reinforce covering the front of the skull. Visor raised, with covered hinges. Armour by Wade Allen
Not for sale.
Burgonet circa c. 1550
Burgonet with acorn finial. Bowl raised from a cone. Moveable umbril and cheeckpieces that attach with a pin at the chin. Lined with an authentic linen lining of 2 layers stuffed with tow and quilted. All hand stitched. patterned after the burgonet lining in the Allen collection. Stitched to leather strips which are riveted along the face and neck edges of the bowl. Armour by Wade Allen, lining by Tracy Justus.
Not for sale.
Bellows Face Close Helmet Early 16th century
Close helmet with bellows visor. Armour by Wade Allen and Aaron Toman working as Valerius Armouries.
Not for sale.