Excellent set T, fantastic condition!

Thank you both for this information.

Thanks to all for your efforts and information. I am walking a fine line here, I started this on my own out of curiosity. I don’t want to offend my new friend or perhaps interfere with his relationship with his father. We shall see.

I have made friends with a fellow Canuck whose father, now 93 was a member of the KNLI, survived the war and came to Canada with his bride soon after the war. The father's only comment on his war experience has been "green bananas and rice" nothing else has ever been said to my friend, his son. Noth...

You are very welcome Amy, it is great to have you with us and your posts are much appreciated.

A beautiful piece Philippe and so very rare to have both items! I love how the R has been simply painted on the uberzug.

A classic example, congrats! Very hard to find in this condition....so often they are torn. A real survivor!

Very nice T, fantastic quality as per usual from the "Bunker" Collection!

I would say that the spine is original to the helmet, as it appears to fit very tight to the shell. It matches the curve of the shell perfectly. Trying to replace a missing spine on a helmet is very difficult. The soldered prongs seldom match up with the shell holes and getting a tight fit is almost...

That is a beautiful helmet Sandy, congratulations. The gilding on the fittings is still in excellent condition as is the interior! Well done.

Good God Sandy.....!! Even I am on Facebook although, I only use it to advertise band gigs I don't really want the World to know what I am up to So, I only use it to my own benefit...well that is my delusion, because of course, BIG BROTHER is tracking my every move on the net!!

Thank you Sandy...unfortunately I had to sell it during my last marriage break down. It was a good piece, with some problems...dents in the spike and shell plus tears in the sweatband. However, there was no doubt to it being authentic/true. If memory serves, I traded 2 US WW1 knuckle duster ice pick...

Thanks for posting this Joe, I will join the group. Don't know anything about blogs but I would be interested in maybe posting if I can figure it out .

Here are some pics of a JR162 OYV helme I owned a while back. Unfortunately, it had to be sold. These pics were originally taken in Aug 2010. IMG_0482.JPG IMG_0481.JPG IMG_0479.JPG IMG_0478.JPG Again, you can see the raised cross on the Lubeck kokarde. Obviously, the helme is totally Prussian except...

Don’t forget about our kokarden section Coert, a post there of your Lubeck kokarde would be a good addition to the thread.

Congratulations Peter that’s a very nice addition to your collection! Great to have another fellow Canadian on board.

As a High School History teacher of over 3.5 decades I am very much aware of the value of what we have created here. As I get older, I begin to think more often about what happens to the forum in the future. We all have an “expiry “ date and so far I have no health concerns but I have talked to Loga...

I agree with you totally John regarding posting here and not on other platforms. However, when you get into multiple pics in my experience, the forum is frustrating and ponderous. Consequently, I have opted for Smugmug but I too wonder about the future of this irreplaceable Pickelhaube Forum Referen...

OK, the problem with posting pictures has been fixed by our tech support! :thumb up: Here is his latest email to me: "Picture uploading should be working now. Turns out the images were being uploaded successfully but phpBB wasn't returning the status correctly to the frontend. Seems to be a bug in p...

I just had a text today from my son Logan who is much more computer literate than I ...."The Amazon Photo Server is running fine. The issue is on the end of the PHPBB program which is used to create/host the forum." Amazon hosts the pictures. Logan also knows our tech support and will be talking to ...

I just went in and removed the post. I hope I understood your request correctly.

I just saw that as well. I sent another email to tech support yesterday asking for an update but have had no response as yet. Usually, when the forum is offline at night hear in N America it does mean work is being done. I will post as soon as I hear back from tech support.

Very nice grouping, love the helmet!

My thanks Patrick. All the best in 2020!
A thank you also goes out to Michel T. in Belgium for his contribution today.

We are in Fla now. Tech. support did respond, so he is aware of the problem. I realize that this is frustrating but please be patient. We may in fact be in for a major change/overhaul of the hosting platform of our site. My son Logan tells me that we are a bit outdated......this may be connected to ...

Our first donation of 2020 was received today from Sandy F. via Paypal. Sandy was first in 2019 as well. Thank you very much Sandy! :thumb up: In total, we received 7 donations during 2019. We now have 2,669 members as of this date in 2020. All donations should be made through Paypal using my email:...

Happy New Year to all our members throughout the world! All the best in 2020.

Mine is similar to Amy's I have to dig up some pics and get them posted.

Yes William of Orange...conqueror of Ireland. There is even a Canadian connection as the Protestant Irish immigrants brought their anti Catholic beliefs with them and established "Orange Lodges" here. There is an Orange Lodge here in my city which has been converted to commercial use. The Orangemen ...

Tech support is looking into the picture posting problem. An outstanding piece Alex!

Tech support responded yesterday, he is on it.

Hmm...a Brit motto on a Dutch mitre...perhaps a William of Orange connection??

Regarding the picture posting problem, tech support has replied and he is looking into the problem. Thanks for your patience everyone.

Factory fresh right off the assembly line!! I have never seen an M15 tschapka in such mint condition and with the Garde stern. That is a superbe find!

Congrats on such a rare piece! I have never seen one of these before. Translation of the motto??

I emailed tech support alerting him to the problem but have not received an answer yet. Usually, he is very quick to solve problems. Perhaps due to this holiday season? So, the problem is we can no longer use the forum to host pics? As I have said I switched to Smugmug. Many months ago.

Merry Christmas to all!! My thanks to the members for making this such a great forum. I am sure we will have yet another excellent year in 2020. Happy hunting everyone!

The Reservist wappen/helmet plate is totally officer as all 3 crowns are voided. Bavarian officers usually have 3 stars plus a small flat head brad which fits under the largest crown. Yours is missing that small brad. Wartime wappen often have split prongs soldered to the back rather than the usual ...

Great photo good to hear you have the picture posting figured out. many thanks also for the translation.

I am contacting tech support.

The shot of the inside of the M91 post tells all....an original factory install would have all those prongs flat and tight to the shell. I believe your strap is a repro. because it doesn’t fit close to the shell at the side posts and the lack of beveled edges on the buckles. The strap leather should...

Regarding the extra spine holes, this is fairly common as it gave options as to where the spine prong could be soldered on the spine. Having a Wurttemberg kokarde on the helmet is not really an indicator of this being a Wurtt. Helmet. Many collectors back in the day did not know about the state colo...

I use SmugMug as my host. I have tried numerous times to use our site to host my pics but I find it frustrating and ponderous, I don’t know if anything can be done to make it better.

PS: Shellac consistency is a bit thicker than water.

I use ooo steel wool over the entire helmet then apply several coats of black shoe polish. This gives me a uniform look/colour over the whole helmet. If you look at period photos, these helmets were extremely shiny when new. Area’s of replaced shellac have this shine which contrasts with the rest of...

A picture is worth a thousand words: https://photos.smugmug.com/Before-Helmet-Restprations/i-bKWsXdz/0/56146909/L/IMG_0880-L.jpg My brushes, the small jar is for the shellac mixture and the pill bottle has thinner in it to clean the brushes. https://photos.smugmug.com/Before-Helmet-Restprations/i-ZD...

Hi Sandy, no problems answering your questions.... #1 I use an angled 1/2" brush (1.2 cm) to apply the shellac. #2 No, that will not work. You can sand the original lacquer and then use a cotton ball wet with thinner to blend in the "dust". This may fill in some fine crazing, but this will not fill ...

I may have covered this in a previous post but I will mention it again here. Due to spamming issues, we had Tech Support disable the automatic registration feature. Despite these idiots having to prove they were not robots, they were still pounding the site with spam. Thus we had to make this change...

I will get our tech support to look into this.

It doesn’t get much better than that. Excellent John!