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A left-arm vambrace; the bend would be placed at the knight's elbow An ornate German (16th century) vambrace made for Costume Armor. Vambraces (French: avant-bras, sometimes known as lower cannons in the Middle Ages) or forearm guards are tubular or gutter defences for the forearm worn as part of a suit of plate armour that were often connected to gauntlets.
Guard of vambrace: An additional layer of armour that goes over cowter, in which case it is proper to speak of the lower cannon of the vambrace which is the forearm guard, and the upper cannon of vambrace which is the rerebrace. Leg: Chausses: Mail hosen, either knee-high or covering the whole leg. Poleyn: 13th
These kinds of plate armour are not found in Tolkien's writings, but plate does appear in the form of individual pieces such as vambraces (forearm guards) or greaves (leg and shin guards). As with other items of war, Elves and Dwarves produced the best armour.
German King Günther von Schwarzburg with splinted bracers and greaves. Splint armor (also splinted armour, splint armour, or splinted armor) is armor consisting of strips of metal ("splints") attached to a cloth or leather backing.
Paintings of Ancient Macedonian soldiers, arms, and armaments, from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki in Greece, 4th century BC. The primary weapon that was used by Greek troops was a two-to-three meter spear with a leaf-shaped blade at one end and a short spike at the other known as the doru.
A manica (Latin: manica, "sleeve"; [1] Greek: χεῖρες, kheires, "sleeves") was a type of iron or copper-alloy laminated arm guard with curved, overlapping metal segments or plates fastened to leather straps worn by ancient and late antique heavy cavalry, infantry, and gladiators.
Daniel Patrick Driscoll DSO, member of the Legion of Frontiersmen, wearing brown leather gauntlets. Vanity Fair caricature 15 February 1911 Hat, sword, LeMat Revolver and gauntlets of Major general J. E. B. Stuart (Museum of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia)
Manju no wa have small wings that would pass under the arm pit area from the back and attach to the front of the manju no wa. Manchira , the manchira is a type of armoured-vest covered with kusari (chain armour), karuta (small armour plates) or kikko (brigandine), these armours or a combination of them were sewn to a cloth backing.