An excellent book. One of the earliest surviving accounts.



Notice the anvil. Typical for an armour of the period. At the bottom of the image are gauges, used to measure the work. This type of gauge was still in use in the 1920's.



From the Beretta archive:


Again notice the anvil in the far left, from Jan Brueghel the Younger Venus at the forge of Vulcan.


Pete

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