[ANSTHRLD] 15th-century barrel helm

[Diane Rudin]

YES!  Hurrah!  That's it!  That's exactly it!!  Thanks, Alasdair!!

--Serena




----- Original Message ----
> From: Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net>
> To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Mon, April 19, 2010 10:38:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] 15th-century barrel helm
> 
> As Mistress Serena pointed towards Stephen Friar's _A Dictionary of Heraldry_, I 
> will liek to provide this link.  While it is not the book cited, you are 
> able to get a limited preview on Google Books of _Basic Heraldry_ by Friar and 
> Ferguson.  If you do a search on "Helm" and look at the second result (page 
> 155) you will find  couple nice profile drawings of barrel helms from the 
> 14th C.  
> 

http://books.google.com/books?id=ez8ZdOPxlukC&printsec=frontcover&dq=stephen+friar&cd=1#v=onepage&q=helm&f=false

i 
> suspect these may be similar to what Serena was talking about.  I will also 
> liek to apologize as it seems i misspoke earlier.  The book I have access 
> to entitled _The Dictionary of Heraldry_ is by Foster and not Friar.  The 
> Friar book I own is the same one the above Google Books link is pointing 
> to.  Though I do believe I may rectify the omission of the Friar book from 
> my library when I get the chance. 
> ;-D

Cheers,
Alasdair