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Very interesting, rare helmets, Clovis. Thank you.

Beautiful collection, Steve (I guess we all have that sort of regrets...). Your Landwehr Eisenbahn helmet looks very similar to Clovis' (see chinstraps), but on yours it seems that the star is in golden colour, and the star in silver. Do you confirm?

To avoid encumbering Giorgio's thread any more I opened this one. At odds with the relic automobile/lorry/motorcycle driver helmet I just presented there, this one is in almost perfect condition in and out. For a long time I remained puzzled by the B.A. marking, and non-detachable spike. Once...

Rare, beautiful, perfectly marked, most desirable... which other opinion can you expect, Giorgio?

A piece of information to be added: an other marking, VAV, that was crossed out, can be seen next to KB. VAV stands for Versuchs-Abteilung des Militär-Verkehrswesen (Experimental Dept for Military Transportation). Thank you, Philippe, for the interesting discussion we had a few years ago on the...

I bought this for a handful of peanuts at a garage sale in LA. Dismantled but complete. It turned up quite nice after I put it back together. IDed to Kraftfahr Battalion (motor vehicle drivers, usually pictured wearing leather jackets and caps with goggles).

Superb helmets, Steve.

Did Imperial Army Mail Offices ship Brodie doughboy helmets to Germany? Probably not.

Right. And on some of them the guard eagle is missing the Suum Cuique star. Does it mean those are M15 models? I have never seen a brass eagle missing the star on a Tschapka.

And some of the chinscales look too short, that is, sitting too high on the eagle plate. Seeing the same on a Tschapka nowadays, many a collector (including myself) would conclude that the chinscales are not original to that helmet...

Not really, Steve, but I like photography in general. When a nice WW1 related one comes into sight I may try not to miss it.

Worth an appearance in an anthology of spiked helmets. Congratulations.

I am sorry, I'm afraid I missed the point here... what is the question? I posted a "like" but it was a mistake. I clicked "Like" instead of "Reply".

Great! Imagine the Show and Tell sessions.

I like it a lot! I cannot remember seeing a beetroot-red liner like this one before. A unique helmet.

Here is the whole thing, and what the IR92 skull shows.

Steve, no IR92 skull has bottom teeth, because there is no jaw. The teeth you see are upper teeth, and what is above, and may look like another set of teeth, is in fact the bumps in skull bone where the roots of upper teeth are.