Search results
Armorial ware. Armorial ware or heraldic china (and a variety of other terms) are ceramics decorated with a coat of arms, either that of a family, or an institution or place. Armorials have been popular on European pottery from the Middle Ages with examples seen on Spanish Hispano-Moresque ware, Italian maiolica, slipware, English and Dutch ...
Slovenian car number plates are vehicle registration plates found on Slovenian cars. The code for Slovenia itself is SLO. [1] The registration plates are made of metal. On the left there is a blue bar as in other EU countries (in use since 2004) along with tamper-proof text up to 2008; the text is in black letters on a white background in ...
In medieval weaponry, the breastplate is the front portion of plate armour covering the torso. It has been a military mainstay since ancient times and was usually made of leather, bronze or iron in antiquity. By around 1000 AD, solid plates had fallen out of use in Europe and knights of the period were wearing mail in the form of a hauberk over ...
Agricultural plates Montenegro agricultural plate. Agricultural machines such as tractors have Montenegrin agricultural plates with white characters on a light-green background. The plates bear the two-letter code of the municipality where the vehicle is registered followed by the coat-of-arms of Montenegro, with two letters and two digits below.
History of Plate Armor - Coat of Plates. Plate Armor is today remembered as one of the most popular armors in European middle ages, even though historical records are very clearly describing that rise of the plate armors and their extreme version “suit of armor” were most prominent during 15th and late 16th centuries.
Surcoat and Coat of Plates. Before the development of the standard full-body plate armor, an interesting type of armor emerged in the 13th century. This kind of armor was directly linked to the surcoat and was called the coat of plates. It essentially utilized the standard surcoat which was sewn or attached to a large number of metal plates.
