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Originally Posted by B.I
...incidentally, mail production was still being done in the Sudan in the late 19thC. it is recorded that one armourer and 6 assistants took 12 days to make one shirt. the pitt rivers have examples taken from the sudanese wars and they were crude examples of armour...
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Whoa! That sounds pretty fast. Are we talking rivetted or butted mail here? I have seen sudanese mail, and don't know what the quality was like metalurgically, but a lot of it doesn't
look particularly crude.
This is an old photo of a 19th century Sudanese mail shirt, taken when the Royal Armouries were still in the Tower of London.
