Sure you are right. Not my area of study, I stick to European items. Although I have handled some of the zinc dipped Indian stuff at Leeds. Didn't count that as it wasn't tinned as per the question.

As I said, no doubt people will come forward with info, as you have.

The Roman mail at Vindonissa has gold!
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Fire gilding with mercury is not a job I'd want.

Thanks but like i said, I only posted the original pic for the mail hauberk behind it. And yes, they are solid washers on the eyelet coat.

No worries, the close-ups may well be useful if i ever decided to devote many days of my life to that project :-) I've certainly got a ton of rings sitting somewhere.

How very strange. Kienbusch used to live in NewYork, but to the best of ny knowledge he gave all of his armor to the Philadelphia Museum of art . At first blush, I imagine the writer of the auction catalog must be thinking of this object in Philly.... but I would hate to think he would claim there is any real comparison.
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Don't know if it has been posted yet.

"European riveted mail hauberk, 14th c, Sinigaglia Italy, detail view, alternating wedge riveted and solid links, well preserved with no rust, thigh length, short sleeve, lower edge and sleeves decorated with several rows of brass rings forming a triangular decorative design. Avg dia of links:(riveted iron 13.72 mm), (riveted brass 15.14 mm), (solid iron 15.31 mm), (solid brass16.54 mm). Wire thickness (riveted iron1.5 mm), (riveted brass 1.6 mm), (solid iron 2.7 mm), (solid brass 2.2 mm). A1."

https://www.pinterest.com/aboerbront/xivth-century/

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I'm fairly certain images of the Sinigaglia hauberk had been posted on myArmoury before along with images of the Edinburgh coif. This image shows some of the insides of the latten dags on the sleeves,
http://s201.photobucket.com/user/expasifist/m...3.jpg.html

Eric,
Unfortunately that's the only image I have showing the interior of the rings. You can see a few of the riveted iron rings a couple of rings up, but while the overlap may be discerned the rivet itself is hard to pick out. Corrosion and cleaning have taken their toll on the iron in iron rings, while the iron rivets in brass are more clearly defined.

Interestingly, the latten dags are applied at 90 degrees to the weave of the mail in the sleeve.

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That last example looks German. I wonder who added the light collar with thongs and when?

The cut of the sleeves is quite unusual.

my thoughts re the sleeve too Mart. Unusual variant I haven't seen before.

I posted this one before but it also belongs with the group of alternating solid and wedge riveted link hauberks, despite not having brass link edges, they could have been removed or it possibly never had them. I think some serious thought needs to go into adding this European riveted mail construction method to the list along with alternating solid links and round riveted link mail and all wedge riveted link mail, undoubtedly there are more examples waiting to be discovered.

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I'm trying to find some pics but the Pitt-Rivers museum in Oxford has just had a major re-display of its mail. It has a lot of fragments and a great deal of non European ethnography, but there is some nice examples there of all types.

speak of the devil, Mark at Cap-A-Pie tweeted this link...

http://pittrivers-verve.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/weve-got-mail.html