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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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360 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL early form they were serviceable heavy axes with a hook-shaped end and a stout prong at the side. From this form were developed shapes which were very long and very narrow — the cutting blade suggesting a surgical knife and the prong at the side becoming a huge needle twenty inches in length. Now it is remarkable that this highly specialized type was used only toward the close of the Wars of the Roses when knights were armed "to the proof" with the most complete and efficient armor which the world has seen. Its plates could no longer be crushed, hence the heavy ax- head of our earlier pole-arm gave place to the long-bladed incurved knife which might be slipped neatly between the plates, say of shoulder, knee or elbow, and inflict a dangerous wound. So too this specialized billhook lost its stout beak or pick, for this could no longer be IRON HAT-LINING /^~\ PIKE MANS IRON HAT
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THE PARTS OF A HEU-ffiT ooo A r>. HELMETS THEIR KIND5 AND DEVELOPMENT DURING THE CENTURIES SPANGENHELM i An. 600

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1915
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  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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