I didn't even know. Shame on me.
I never had the chance to meet him but for his works. And for them, he had my admiration. He was on of those gentlemen-scholars, in the full sense of the word, who built accurate knowledge with passion and effort, to share it with the world.
It would be a daunting task to simply list his contributions to the study of European Arms and Armour and metalwork. It's easier to say that his work will always stay as a huge milestone in the long road of the research in this field, together with other great scholars of his generation form the "British School" (Mann, Norman, North, Oakeshott, etc...) and elsewhere.
He will be greatly missed.
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