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The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

Chapter 34: FOOTNOTE:
By Charles John Ffoulkes
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A comprehensive compilation of practical and documentary evidence on medieval and early modern armour-making, presenting descriptions of tools, materials, and workshop processes alongside the regulations that controlled the trade. The text surveys iron and steelworking, construction techniques, proofing, decoration, maintenance, and the use of fabrics and leather in wearing armour. Institutional material covers guild ordinances, company records, lists of European armourers, makers’ marks, and short biographies, while diagrams, plates, translated documents, and a polyglot glossary clarify technical terminology and contemporary treatises on craft practice.

LIST OF ARMOURERS’ MARKS

The following have been taken from rubbings, drawings, and prints, and the authorship of the marks is that given in the several catalogues. The nationality of the armour is given first as German, Italian, Spanish, or French; following this is the approximate date; and lastly the Museums in which the mark is found with the catalogue number. The Roman figures denote the century to which the mark is ascribed.

A= Athens, Ethnological Mus.
B= Brussels, Porte de Hal.
Ber= Berlin, Zeughaus.
D= Dresden, Johanneum.
G= Geneva.
L= London, Tower.
M= Madrid, Real Armeria.
N= Nuremberg.
P= Paris, Musée d’Artillerie.
S= Stockholm, Lifrustkammer.
T= Turin, Armeria Reale.
V= Vienna, Waffensammlung.
Ven= Venice, Museo civico and Arsenale.

Armourers’ Marks.

  1. XIV. P, H, 23.
  2. XV. P, H, 27.
  3. XV. P, H, 41.
  4. Germ., XV. P, G, I.
  5. XV. P, H, 36.
  6. Rotschmied, Germ. 1597. G.
  7. Conrad Seusenhofer, Germ. 1518. L, II, 5.
  8. Jörg Seusenhofer, Germ. 1558. V, 283, 407. P, G, 41, 117.
  9. Valentine Siebenbürger, Germ. 1531–47. V, 226.
10. Germ., XV. P, H, 11.
11. Germ., XV-XVI. P, H, 42.
12. It., XVI. P, H, 55, 305.
13. It., XVI. P, H, 54.
14. Germ., XVI. P, G, 23.
15. Adrian Treytz, Germ. 1469–1517. V, 66, 1018.
16. Veit, Germ., XV-XVI. N, V.
17. Wilhelm von Worms, Germ., XVI. V, 226, 296.
18. Merate brothers, It. 1495. V, 917.
19. Germ., XV-XVI. P, G, 18.
20. F. Siebenburger, Germ., XVI. P, G, 22, 568.
21. Germ., XVI-XVII. P, H, 166. D, E, 556 (see also 97).
22. City of Augsburg, XV-XVII passim.
23. Lorenz Colman or Helmschmied, 1516. P, G, 536; V, 1005.
24. Antonio da Missaglia, It. 1492 passim (see also 36).
25. Antonio da Missaglia.
26. Antonio da Missaglia.
27. Petrajolo and Tomaso da Missaglia. 1400–68. V, 2, 3, 897; P, H, 29 (see also No. 78).
28. Germ., XVI. P, H, 158.
29. Germ., XV-XVI. P, G, 382.
30. Sigismund Wolf, Germ. 1554. P, G, 63, 64, etc.; M, A, 231.
31. It. (?), XVI. P, G, 36.
32. Germ., XVI. P, G, 147, H, 97.
33. It., XV. A (possibly a Missaglia mark, see No. 24).
34. It., XV. A.
35. It., XV. M, D, 14.
36. Antonio da Missaglia, It., XV-XVI. P, H, 29.
37. XVI. P, G, 84.
38. Matthaias Fraüenpreis, Germ. 1549–75. V, 397, 950; D, G, 39.
39. Franz Grofsschedl, Germ. 1568. V, 989; D, C, 1, 2.
40. Coloman Colman or Helmschmied, Germ. 1470–1532. V, 175; D, G, 15; M, A, 19, 59, 73, etc.
41. Lorenz Colman or Helmschmied, Germ. 1516. V, 62 (see also No. 23).
42. Philipp Negroli, It. 1530–90 } V, 330; M, A,
43. Philipp and Jacomo Negroli ” } 139–46; D, 13, 30, 64.
44. Philipp and Jacomo Negroli (?). P, G, 7, 10, 178.
45. City of Nuremberg, XV-XVII passim.
46. Kunz or Conrad Lochner, Germ. 1567. V, 334; P, G, 182, etc.; M, A, 243; S, 64.
47. Heinrich Obresch, Germ. 1590.
48. Anton Peffenhauser, Germ. 1566–95. V, 489; M, A, 290.
49. Hans Ringter, Germ. 1560. V.
50. XVI-XVII. P, G, 124.
51. Possibly the Merate brothers, It. XV-XVI. V, 60; L, VI, 28; M, A, 3.
52. Germ., XVI. V, 9.

Armourers’ Marks.

  53. Possibly the Merate brothers, It., XV-XVI. V, 948.
  54. Possibly Hans Grünewalt, Germ., XV-XVI. V, 66, 995.
  55. It., XV. V, 5.
  56. J. Voys, Netherland, XV-XVI. B, II, 39, 40; M, A, 11
  57. XV. M, A, 4.
  58. XV. M, A, 6.
  59. On a mail skirt, XV-XVI. T, G, 86.
  60. Peter von Speyer, Germ., 1560. Ber.
  61. It., XV. Gen.
  62. It., XV. Gen.
  63. Germ., XV-XVI. P, H, 76.
  64. It., XV. Gen.
  65. Germ., XVI. V, 63.
  66. It., XV-XVI. Ven. Mus. civico.
  67. It., XVI. Ven. Arsenale.
  68. On a sallad with Missaglia mark, It., XV. Ven. Mus. civico.
  69. Germ., XVI. B, II, 101.
  70. Germ., XV-XVI. V, 1022.
  71. Armourers’ Company, London, XVII. L.
  72. Germ., XV. D, A, 75.
  73. Netherlands, XV. D, A, 75.
  74. Siebenburger (?), Germ., XVI. B, II, 92.
  75. It., XVI. M, A, 147.
  76. Jorg Sigman, Germ., XVI. M, A, 238.
  77. It, XV. A.
  78. T. and P. da Missaglia, It., 1400–1468. P, H, 29; V, 2, 3; L, II, 29 (see Nos. 24–7).
  79. Sigmund Rosenburger, Germ. XVI. D, C, 3, 4.
  80. City of Augsburg (?), XVI. D.[146]
  81. City of Augsburg (?), XVI. passim.
  82. Germ., XVI. D.
  83. M. Petit. Fr. XVII. P, H, 150; V, 711; M, A, 379.
  84. Sp., XV. M, D, 24.
  85. It., XV. A.
  86. It., XV. A.
  87. XVII. M, B, 11; T, C, 14.
  88. XV. P, H, 141.
  89. Germ., XV-XVI. L, II, 37.
  90. XVI. L, III, 186.
  91. Germ., XVI. L, II, 3.
  92. Sp., XV. M, C, 10.
  93. Sp., XV. M, C, 10.
  94. It., XV. A.
  95. XV. M, D, 18.
  96. Germ., XV. B, II, 170.
  97. Germ., XVI. B, II, 182; D, E, 556 (see also No. 21); S, on a crossbow, 143.
  98. Germ., XVI. B, II, 30.
  99. Germ., XVI. B, II, 3.
100. Possibly the city of Wittenburg, XVI. B, II, 4, 41.
101. Sp., XV. M, C, 10.
102. Sp., XV. M, C, 10.
103. It., XV. A.
104. Germ. XV. V.

FOOTNOTE:

[146] A similar mark was used by the Armourers’ Company, London, about 1640.