Echoed by their very sketchy and sparse attempts at the “military moustache “.

I figured everyone knew that Bruno :D ! Anyway, yes Queen Victoria was the Kaiser’s grandma. His momma was one of her many daughters. In WW1 the Kaiser was fighting his uncle the King of England and his Russian first cousin Czar Nicholas, a real family affair! As to the tschapka, perhaps this indivi...

In truth, tech support in the UK, seems to have gone missing. I emailed at least half a dozen times since we crossed the border. Once this virus thing subsides, I will be looking to hire a local company to take care of the technical issues here even though I am paid up for 2020 with the Brit.

Regarding this Saxe M15, it looks to me that the visor has been restitched or a new one put on. The stitch line looks like they skipped every other hole. I have seen this on other repaired M15s.

I suspect Sandy that by 1914 the majority of the British public were not aware of the close collaboration between their country and Germany against Napoleon. After all, by this time veterans of Waterloo and the Napoleonic Wars were long dead. In addition, due to some of the Kaiser’s statements and a...

Very nice indeed and not presenting the usual problems of missing liner, tears in the felt or collapsed shell. It is rare these days to find one in this fine condition. Congratulations!

Very nice. That 2Els is unique, usually on any I have seen it’s PB and number. Great helmet!

Ok , we will get the permissions problem solved. Thanks for the heads up Bruno.

Just testing this part of the forum. B

Me thinks, I need to buy lunch for the lovely Ms. Enid next SOS...a pleasant nod to Pete in passing but a more engaging conversation with Enid is needed! I believe that is what necessity demands!! An obvious marketing failure on my....or perhaps/deliberately on your part James ???? I wonder if Ms E ...

Any mention of pickelhaubes.com in that article??? At least give me some good news!

Yea...so where's my picture??? I was there and talked to Enid too!! . Ok perhaps due to the number of my ex wives, I should remain below the radar Grudgingly congratulating Gus and James.

Here is today's post from Jim's collection and unfortunately, the last one in this series. I hope everyone has noted that Jim, as a fellow collector, has given us detailed photos of his helmets...wappen removed, rear pics of wappen, makers labels, wappen close ups, kokarden etc. These photos go way ...

Yes, good to see you have framed up that CEF gas helmet you sniped from my part of The Great White North years ago!

Wow Bruno, that reality is in fact horrifically grim!

Another pair of rare straps from Steve...Stellvertreter Officer FAR 10:

Thank you Bruno, I will alert Jim regarding your question on this helmet. Regarding pictures, I just post them, all credit goes to Jim, Steve, Verdun 16, Tony, yourself and all others who have posted here during this world wide crisis. My intention is, to keep the site as active as possible with man...

More examples from Steve's SOS 2020 haul: Baden Dragoner DR 24 DR 25 Model 1915

More:

Our next FA comes from Saxe Weimar Meiningen:

Our next FA helmet is an example of a pre 1912 Lippe:

Excellent article and photos Pete, well done!

As promised the wappen from my JR 95 OR's helmet. This piece has two date stamps 1888, 1893 and the older screw post means of fixation. IMG_1157.JPG The neusilber star and shield are attached with soldered prongs. IMG_1156.JPG Soldered screw posts IMG_1155.JPG Two solid crowns on this JR 95 wappen a...

We continue with more Dragoner helmets from Steve's collection DR's 9, 16, 19: Note the Reservist Cross on the left helmet.

Today's post from the Turinetti collection is an FA helmet from Oldenburg. This helmet is an example from pre 1905. Again, my thanks to Jim for sharing his collection with us. Compressed DSCN0258.JPG Compressed DSCN0259.JPG Compressed Oldenburg DSCN026203.JPG Compressed Oldenburg DSCN026607.JPG Comp...

Yes, JR 95 officer due to voided crown. The eagle crown on the bird would have been voided too. I just checked my OR's 95, both crowns are solid. Good to hear you have the Larcade books, both are excellent references. Check out our wappen section as well, there may be an officer 95 shown there.

In my experience, you can use an electric soldering iron on that to remove those CN badge lugs no problem. However, try not to use too much heat as it will discolour the star. Yes, there would have been screw posts with square nuts and you can see the old solder remains where they once were. I have ...

If memory serves Cliff, it has been awhile since you last posted. Great to have you back with us.

Jim's next helmet, a Flugel Adj. helme from Lippe post 1912: This one has the Fuerst bandeau.

Hi Bruno you are totally correct and even back in the eighties, I knew this star was incorrect, that is why I did not buy it at the time. Someone added that just to fill in. Probably some dealer .

I mentioned that I had run into one of these Flugel Adj. helmets back in the late 80's. The kokade suggests that this one was from Anhalt! As I said in another post, once a dealer knows he has a serious collector customer all kinds of helmets start to show up in his store. I could have bought this h...

Steve strikes again, with some examples from his collection : Carl Edward von Gillhausen Saxe Coburg FA One of his epaulettes. Carl Edward in 1923.

Additional photos: Of note, most Hesse officer wappen that I have seen have the screw posts soldered on the diagonal not the typical horizontal which we see here.

Many thanks Bruno, that was quick! That is a beautiful helmet you have there! Here is some additional text provided by Jim Turinetti who is sending photos of his collection: Flugeladjutants and General Adjutants were officers who were assigned to the staff of a king,duke,prince or senior commander t...

As the result of my "Mystery Officer Helmet" post, the piece in question has been identified as a Flugeladjutant from Saxe Coburg Gotha in the post 1905 style. Fortunately, we have a member who has several of these rare helmets in his collection and he has kindly agreed to provide photos and descrip...

My thanks to you both for your research efforts. It makes sense that as a private purchase, the owner would have kept his helmet and uberzug after his service was complete.

The uniforms of this era were gorgeous! Thanks for posting this series of photographs.

The proper spike would be the common smooth cone Prussian officer one. The fluted/crimped top you have is for a Bavarian officer helmet. The Bavarian officer has a cruciform spike base while your shell is punched for the round base Prussian. Looks like you have all the parts except for an officer Re...

Yes of course... Mr S Holmes the famous detective. Regarding tailoring, not much space there for even a couple of extra pounds! They did like them tight though back in those days.

I have had this piece since my early collecting days in the 1980's. At that time, I had a dealer/friend who had connections with local Legions here in my part of Canada. This guy's modus operandi, was to offer to make Legions framed displays of CN WW2 militaria in return for any German WW1, WW2 they...

Another couple of photos from Steve's Dragoon collection: Dragoon Regt 1 Officer.JPG D R 1 a.JPG As usual, I will let Steve make comments here. I would like to mention that he and I are conspiring together to try and post at least one new set of photos per day during this crisis. Luckily, Steve has ...

Now that is an excellent photo! As a member of Her Majesty’s Commonwealth, my thanks for posting it.

Steve just received these in the mail, I will let him post a description.

Ok very good T, thanks for clarifying.

As promised, this helme mit uberzug: IMG_1035.JPG IMG_1039.JPG IMG_1040.JPG It will be very interesting to see what our members can find out about the owner of this helmet. The red numeral indicates a prewar uberzug, as we all know they switched to green numbers early in the war and then did away wi...

It is rare for a helmet to be clearly named in this hobby. However, with this piece which was purchased at the SOS and given to me for some finish work we have the private purchase helmet of Einj. Freiw. Kaebel 2 Komp. 9th Inf. Regt. a second exceptional part of this story is that the haube came wit...

A latest acquisition from Steve..A Saxe MG award from 1909. Incredibly rare! Steve can provide comments.

Awesome, I have always wanted one of these especially an OR's one with markings. The closest I came was at the 2019 SOS.... an OR wappen BUT they wanted $800US for it. I still have hopes though!

Back in the 80’s when I was a new collector, I was fortunate to actually handle one of these Flugeladj helmets. The interior was of very high quality with a cream coloured sweat band. Unfortunately, although all silver fittings were present plus the correct state kokarden and Officer wappen, the ena...

Ahhh.....a couple of punters at last! Yes Aaron, that is how I would read that label. The front visor trim and rear spine are neusilber which is correct for a Flugeadj. I Have already informed the owner that these two pieces are the original fittings because they can’t be easily removed plus any rep...