Medieval Spurs and Horseshoes - Szczecin NM

Salve,
returning to the Old Town Hall Museum in Szczecin, I would like to show you some spurs, stirrups, currycombs, horseshoes, and bits on display at the 1st floor of the museum.
Spurs

Currycombs

Horseshoes - last horseshoe is not a medieval one, but an early modern example.

Stirrups

Bits

Unfortunately there was no detailed depiction of these artefacts and therefore they shall remain  silent ones, unless one day I will be able to dig out some literature on them.
Enjoy

Medieval blacksmith tools from Szczecin NM

Salve,
yesterday I posted images from the Old Town Hall of the Szczecin National Museum.
Today I would like to add some more images of the blacksmith craft & tools  uncovered during the post-1945 archaeological  digs done in and around Szczecin. They are medieval and early modern tools & products, of the very period in the Polish and German Baltic lands when the Pomeranian dukes ruled the south-western coast of the Baltic Sea, and their cities and towns were part of the Hanseatic League.

Enjoy
ps
perhaps tomorrow some medieval stirrups and spurs, and horseshoes from the same museum.

New Year 2016

Salve,
New Year 2016 started last Friday and so the new year of blogging has started with the new year. I hope to keep going on - :)
I will start with our Polish Silver Age the XVII century, Jan Sobieski and winged hussars.... from Szczecin, the National Museum collection housed at the Old Town Hall (great place to visit when in Szczecin - free entry on Saturdays).

A surviving relief image of king Jan Sobieski from the non-existent Virgin Mary Church, originally built by duke Barnim I of Pomerania.

Hussar armour - according to the description from the Museum's chart it is a late XVII century artefact.

The helmet is a Pappeheimer zischagge/shishaq.

Also, a hilt of the XVII Swedish sword - rapier - found in or around Szczecin and displayed the same museum -

Happy New Year!
Dosiego Roku!
enjoy