Only real armor fans will INSTANTLY KNOW WHAT THESE ARE

[@BlacktailXD]

"These are two things." - Matt Easton, 2025

[@clockup5878]

At least he will continue to be Matt Easton, so that's okay I guess.

[@dallintaggart482]

He did say that.

[@Ninjamanhammer]

Technically he did say it in 2024.

[@Gedof]

I did think they looked like some kind of pauldron related thing, but I was not a real enough armor fan to actually put my finger on it and commit to an answer.

[@danjohnston9037]

same

[@demoths]

I was shocked when my hesitant "pauldrons...?" was more or less correct 😂

[@johnminnitt8101]

Me too

[@Leftyotism]

Fun fact: Polishing also protects from corrosion, since the surface area will be smoother and hence gives moisture less surface area to attack.

[@artor9175]

And it also shows that you have the money to pay someone to keep your armor shiny.

[@Leftyotism]

@@artor9175 I mean or just polish each others plates on down time. 🤔 Like the parts where you can't reach.

[@josephvisnovsky1462]

Unsure what the Italian nonmeclature was for them, but the raised pauldron collar is called a haute-piece (literally high piece). The stop ribs (lisière d'arrêt) are found only upon many bodily armor pieces, not just breastplates and pauldrons.

[@FiliiMartis]

I genuinely didn't know about reinforcing plates. I thought that people would have switched pieces as needed (like heavier pauldrons for jousts), but I never considered adding more plates on top. Quite interesting and enlightening (since now that I hear about this, it sounds like an obvious thing to do). So no, I'm not a real armour fan. I'll stick to emptying my wallet on swords alone. 😅 Matt, I liked your blued armour a lot, but I like your new one as well now that I see the red and brass highlights (KZbin doesn't pay enough to have it gilded, I guess 😉😇).

[@michaelsmith8028]

I've always called them fleebs and gleebs.

[@Designnosaur]

Do you even understand how armour works? They're obviously gibbles and pips.

[@michaelsmith8028]

@Designnosaur Oh my mistake sorry. I always confuse gleebs and pips with one another.

[@Leftyotism]

I just call them left and right glorpf.

[@lalbus1607]

I think you could remind people to let a like on your videos. Even people who are regulars viewers of the channel sometimes forget to like the videos. By the way, I am pretty sure the right piece is some sort of pauldron, but the left seems quite tricky. I would guess it's either some part of a multi piece pauldron or some sort of unusual tasset.

[@m_d_c_t]

Before watching: Ailettes, right? Additional little plates that you can slap onto the shoulders. Maybe Ailettes specifically only refer to 12th century styles, but that's the term I'd use for these.

[@FernandoSilva-eo5uy]

Metal ailettes have existed?

[@fridrekr7510]

I don’t think there’s any 12thC ailettes. I focus on late 12thC to early 13thC and I haven’t seen them in sources, I would assume they show up in the second half of the 13thC or later.

[@Nobile-Cavaliere]

I don't know the exact terminology for them but I know they go over the pauldrons on usually italian/italian adjacent harnesses.

[@verfugbarkite]

Balls! Those pieces are armour props from the 1995 film First Knight.

[@naomi5854]

Guess before watching the videos, I know the right one is a rondel/basegew(forgive my spelling) and Pauldron.. i know rondels comes in different shapes but mainly circular, but later on you'll see more rectangular shapes. As for the pauldron, that covers their arm to protect from lance strike due to one side only. But sometime they have them both sides but one thing I know off is to protect lance attack in a joust tournament. Other than that it really makes you less mobile.

[@naomi5854]

Guess I was wrong they're one set pauldrons, Fooled me from how small the right pauldron is.

[@stinkymccheese8010]

My first thought was they were part of the assembly to protect these people shoulders, but after I got a better look they look like they were intended to protect these people shoulders hips and pelvic region. Looks like my initial thought was correct.

[@ycplum7062]

Looks like they take the brunt of impacts. Being easily removable, they can be easily and quickly repaired or replaced. At least way easier and quicker than removing the paldrons from a suit/full harness. I would not be surprised if a knight carried a spare for campaigns.

[@Leftyotism]

Thanks for continuing to be Matt Easton! Love seeing these!

[@shovelchop81bikeralex52]

YAY! I got it right thanks to (of all things) that old series about modern full contact jousting in America where they had cowboys going against military veterans etc.. must have been a History Channel thing, fun though. I remember they had to put the armour on and take it off with impact wrenches so it was like an F1 pit crew!

[@HobieH3]

5:25 Great pic of Drach!

[@alowry2002]

Thank you. I thought they were pauldron pieces as part of an armour garniture, “a complete suit of armor with a set of exchange elements designed to adapt the basic unit to different uses, such as tournament or battle.” The second part I’m probably wrong but we lack the rest of the suit to know if there were alternatives for these pieces.

[@johnbyington3458]

The plate in your left hand...in the US we use one similar, but it is quite longer and bolts to the breast plate. I don't know what the actual name is, but we call it "Plunking Plate".

[@Norkans5]

These are Add-on reinforcements for armour. Usually found on italian armours if i remember correctly.

[@level98bearhuntingarmor]

I guess guessing the big one right is a confidence booster, also would these be used only on horseback or on foot as well?

[@5amH45lam]

Hi Matt, I'm guessing you might be the best person on youtube to answer this enquiry... I'm writing a piece that encourages the reader to envisage paying with a literal pound of flesh. I recall seeing many years ago the image of (what I assume was) the medieval weapon to acquire such a toll. It was ostensibly a wooden club. Atop it however was a short, stout, iron blade, the physical point of which curved down, to the left (for the right-hander) toward the wooden shaft. Its shape created a fist-sized, sharp-edged, concaved scoop, essentially. The wielder would strike it down on their opponent, with the purpose of excising (there-or-thereabouts) the literal _pound of flesh_ I mention above. Do you know the implement I'm referring to? If so, can you please tell me its name?? Thanks for your time and expertise.

[@richardsuggs8108]

Love the Wallace collection.

[@Evan-rj9xy]

My guess is the left one is some kind of besagew, and the right one is a reinforcing plate for the left pauldron. edit: Well, half right I guess

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

I was in much the same boat, knew the right one for sure, but the left seemed too nondescript to figure out exactly what it was supposed to be. Though I guess with the way the question was asked it would be reasonable to assume they are a pair...

[@JustClaude13]

I was guessing the big one was a ,manifold shield for a '68 Chrysler slant six. I guess I was wrong.

[@NotFlappy12]

No clue what they're called, but I assume they're the plates that cover the front of the armpit/pectorals

[@ArmourArtist]

I'm thinking that they are reinforcing plates you add to pauldrons.

[@ArmourArtist]

Right. The big clue was the little holes to pin it on.

[@FlorinBalan-e6k]

Awesome! About the thickness and the weight of the plates? Thank you!

[@somerando1073]

I was close. I thought it was a pauldron and a spaulder, not covers which I have never heard of before.

[@ericaugust1501]

pauldron and tassle?

[@pauloldfield6968]

Hi would it be possible to mention the auctions estimated value ?

[@Frobro_77]

I knew they were shoulder pieces but I had no idea what they were called

[@DETHMOKIL]

they are the swappable foot or mounted front paldron thingys... probably has a french name...

[@anthonyjbargeman5280]

Didn't type fast enough to answer your opening question. But I was right (almost). Was off in the fact that they were reinforcement plates. I called them the paldrunes.

[@berndmaier915]

Big one is a reinforcement for pauldrons/spaulders, the small one also seems like a reinforcement not sure for where though. Edit: Could it be you were holding the small one upside down? Edit2: I see it was the case. Not sure I would have got it either way, good video matt👍

[@-RONNIE]

Thanks for the video

[@Yandarval]

Why is Matt showing what covered the Christmas Turkey in a vid LOL. Pauldron and Besegew, by the looks of them. Although I have feeling Matt is attempting to trick us.

[@noggin8216]

Shoulder armor, crimped in the middle to reinforce them against bending

[@TheUnseenGate]

My first thought was “shoulder pieces” ? And.. LETSGOOOO

[@ihtfp01]

Dang, I thought you found the missing cover plates for my HVAC system... I'm never gonna find em, am I?

[@PXCharon]

Kind of an evolution of the besagew then? I never realized those were separate individual plates from the base pauldron.

[@ScottGrow117]

I didn't know what to call them, but I guess correctly where they go and what they are for! I feel pretty proud of myself. 😁😁😁

[@zbyszkokilanowski2086]

aditional shoulder guard, and maybe that plate you put on the joint betwene your leg and pelvis

[@DavidBray170]

Shoulder guard thingumies?

[@mbryson2899]

They're Italian, so properly they are "thingagummies," with thumb touching the index and middle fingers shaken fot accent. 😉

[@lordofpossums5750]

Pauldrons/spaulders, maybe?

[@not-a-theist8251]

I had no Idea what these were tbh

[@Subutai_Khan]

My guess is pauldrons/shoulder armor.

[@Barberserk]

Is there any left-right asymmetrical leg armor, in history?

[@justharrison6862]

0:36 i wasn't far off i play way too much Assassin's Creed and Elder Scrolls😅

[@Anti_Woke]

Several feet out - I thought they were tassets

[@yousarrname3051]

I know these to be front and left plates of an M1A1 Abrams.

[@Capitanodiventura89]

Italian white armor reinforce for their asymmetric pauldrons

[@t6c756]

Armpit and hip armor?

[@ortizfamilyof13]

i was thinking they were the plates for jousting

[@knutzzl]

you do know your holding the right one upside down right?

[@Beardshire]

Why not just make that part thicker?

[@pizzabear9305]

Reinforcement plates for asymmetrical pauldrons!

[@whiterunguard9465]

My guess is that they are parts of a Milanese style 15th century pauldron. 🙏

[@GaudialisCorvus]

Pauldrons! Edit: Darn!

[@sirpuffball6366]

them's gardbraces :>

[@awb2498]

Those are metal plates!

[@tomivainionpaa8650]

Shoulder pauldron and biceps guard

[@reeyees50]

The more i grow old, the more i think late european plate armour was just to show off your wealth rather than most efficient and practical way of fabricating armour

[@SuperRichyrich11]

“Some pauldron components?”

[@SuperRichyrich11]

* pause at 0:52 * ha, nice

[@misolgit69]

added extras

[@LieutenantCommanderData]

I did not instantly know what those are :(

[@Leftyotism]

Looks like outer leg plates, but then I am not an expert. :( Aww so close!

[@NevisYsbryd]

I had the right concept, wrong name.

[@Sir_Nutenzail]

Damnit i guess ailette and pauldron.

[@baecos4158]

I almost got it right, i thought they were just fucked up pauldrons

[@mpetersen6]

Thing-a-gigs and doodads

[@JosiahHeavner]

wow! thats very interesting i consider myself an armor fan and this is new to me! so i guess im not! 😂

[@lucas_lipp]

That's how you pronounce "couters"?!

[@oldschooljeremy8124]

Agreed that they are two things. ;)

[@lukewilliams8548]

Yes! Brigandine plates

[@lukewilliams8548]

I spoke too soon. I completely failed to notice the ridges and bends.

[@emarsk77]

Fans of real armour or real fans of armour?

[@EnderLord99]

funny metal plates

[@tigdogsbody]

Tinfoil from TV dinners?

[@RobbyVogel]

Pauldron peices

[@FirstLast-wk3kc]

I thought it's not a rare knowledge, but okay

[@FerdinandAugustinus-j6t]

Of course l know! But l don't know what they are called...

[@ChristianThePagan]

Italian pauldron reinforcement plates, sometimes called 'gardbraces'. Can we get a hard question now?

[@thezieg]

🎉

[@annawang7095]

Reinforcements? Not sure where Ahhhh sweet

[@jerdasaurusrex557]

They looke like add on plates.

[@plasmaburndeath]

OMG, why did they use STICKERS to label these‽⸘‽⸘‽⸘‽⸘ Just think what Bumper stickers can do to your Car which has more advanced materials... Why did they do this‽ There are holes in the items already, use leather rope tags or something else for goodness sake! Stickers on Metal do not PREVENT Rust, it will help cause it! Wraps And Stickers Are Permanently Damaging Tesla Cybertruck's Stainless Steel Bodywork, imagine how much damage this is going to do to these historical artifacts. Just WOW. I can't believe I am seeing this. A sticker is more likely to trap moisture and cause it to rust faster. Also the adhesive... should I have to explain this? Just for the love of history...

[@ericeaton3551]

They look like click bait

[@jill-ti7oe]

😄👍

[@willscott4178]

You need to analyse the recent knife fight in ukraine.

[@BuffordEvans]

Yo !!