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Gardening and maintenance work.... 😧 Always busy from April to November... Less motivated each new year, but the results can always be appreciated once the work is done, sitting comfortably on the terrace in the sunshine, with a cold beer...🤗 Philippe

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Hi Georgio, 1)About chinstrap and cockades I post more detailed pics....I'd be wrong for chinstrap but I'd be surprised if cockades are fakes...(but of course I could be wrong) I am sure that the chinstrap is a repro one. About cockades, other members could confirm or not. I am not 100% sure...

Yes it is, no doubt about it . At least, always a question of price ans personal taste ;) Philippe

I was offered this one too on the 22 of March by a german dealer who was in Münsingen...He sent me some live picts on my mobile phone. I did not take it for some reasons (chinstrap is copy, cockades, not sure). It further seams that the shell has been polished with black shoe polish (visible on...

The six guys in the middle have their spikes unscrewed and the wappen removed. The pattern is the one as shown in the Kraus book and as my specimen. Philippe

Hi, You have here a very fine and scarce Haube! I also own a very similar one but with another spike pattern. I think yours also had such a scarce spike pattern but has been later replaced by a classic one. Yes, it is a 1906 Versuchshelmet that has been tested in the KJR145 in Metz (as shown on...

Well well, but why change both original rosettes? :oops: From old composite to new composition. Philippe

Hallo, I think this helmet has the wrong Haarbusch... Regulations stipulate that the length of parade plumes worn by cavalry EM and, as a general rule, mounted troops EM (including artillery) must be such that the bottom of the plume is in line with the helmet visor. Unlike the plumes worn in...

Yes Steve, the writing ;) Philippe

It seems to be: Unteroffizier-Schule S2 Wetzlar-Weilburg Philippe

In Germany, it works perfectly! https://www.kaisersbunker.com/index2.htm Philippe

I do not like at all most of the helmets shown at the Hermann auction.... Philippe

That´s not true! Less fortunated officers could also buy less luxurious helmets without the thin red and green covers on the visors. No obligation of that! Philippe

Cloclo, I would like to see such an AKO which stipulates that helmets (particularly M15) are no longer to be regimentally stamped... We all know that green regiment numbers on the Überzüge (helmet covers) have existed in regulation till the fall of 1916! The same observation applies to the...