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AHorsa
14th May 2020, 05:39 PM
Just found this lucky chap in a book and didnīt want to withhold him from you :)

vilhelmsson
14th May 2020, 05:45 PM
I hope he has good health insurance!

Is there more info in the book about what he is? Is he the sample and options catalog for a smith? Is he a courtier dressing for his and his colleagues' amusement?

AHorsa
14th May 2020, 05:49 PM
Anyhow he shouldnīt stumble :)

There is just the discription "Habit de Fourbisseur", copper engraving by Nicola de Larmessin, Paris around 1695

vilhelmsson
14th May 2020, 07:03 PM
Thank you!

Google translate can't handle fourbisseur. But I found a definition in a French dictionary: Person whose task is to furnish, mount or repair bladed weapons to make them brighter.

Also, if you do a Google Image search for "Habit de Fourbisseur" there are a lot of entertaining images from other pages of the same book.

I think they might be costumes for pageant entertainers or the invention of the artist to entertain the nobility with the day-to-day of their subjects?

alex8765
14th May 2020, 10:00 PM
Nice Halloween costume!

M ELEY
15th May 2020, 07:50 AM
It's hell for him at airports, though... ;)

mariusgmioc
15th May 2020, 01:07 PM
It's hell for him at airports, though... ;)

Luckily, they didn't have TSA back then... ;)

mariusgmioc
15th May 2020, 01:31 PM
It's hell for him at airports, though... ;)

Luckily, they didn't have TSA back then... ;)

Kmaddock
15th May 2020, 02:58 PM
He probably is saying to himself

"I just don't get the point"

sorry i couldn't resist this joke
Ken

kronckew
15th May 2020, 05:20 PM
He just lives in a really bad neighbourhood.

ulfberth
16th May 2020, 09:18 AM
I alway's wondered were the expression " armed to the teeth" came from ….

kronckew
16th May 2020, 10:44 AM
Reminds me of Rick's palace guard

Will M
16th May 2020, 12:30 PM
What amazes me is the lack of foot protection, only sandals.
One good cut to the feet and he's down.

fernando
16th May 2020, 12:56 PM
How it became a 'modern' plausible situation ... painted and real.


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