Very nice!
Congrats.

Hello,

nice helmets and details!
But forgive me to go off topic right away; I was just curious about who the guy is, wearing (among others!)at my first impression a" légion d'honneur premier empire 4 iéme type, à boufette"?

Hope it is fixed very well to the ground!

Message send.

I 've got a machine like that!

# me too

lol!

All right! I understand now.

Hey Gustaf, thanks for your message and appreciation. No worries about sun and moon light, the whole house is equipped with special glass in order to preserve the antiques, and keeps the house chilled in the summer.It has (the glass!) a whole lot of specifications I can't even remember. It also is; ...

Hello,
nice shield, never saw one before!
But I see like you are presenting two different shields, one is glaze/ brilliant the other is mat/dull.
Also eagle's head pointing to different sides.
cheers
Kris

Congrats, great man cave and above ground too, not the usual basement retreat! I have a friend who collects war of 1812, amazing what Brit and US buttons from that era sell for. Thank you. Most expensive button I saw was a railway button, can't remember how much, but I know I could get a very nice ...

Khukri wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:33 pm

Great!!!!Kris: With room for a fridge??

Thanks!
I am making room at the moment.
For ...a fridge, a tele, a humidor, a good chair, and so on!

Great post!

Thanks a lot!

Nice helmet!
Thanks for sharing.
Kris

Problem has been fixed, by Brian and his tech crew, guy's just have to remember that this is a hobby for all of us including Brian, and the best thing to do is let him know when a problem arises like this, but be patient as it may take a little bit to get it fixed. I know it sucks that people out t...

All ready 8 pages of new messages....

And it seems to continue! A message every minute. Sometimes even more...

A screen print;

It is happening again, right now!

Thanks Peter!
Still have to finish the big cabinet.
BTW, I got a nice photo album (2 in fact!) of a former colonel of the Force Publique in Belgian Congo.
Very interesting. But didn't do much with it, due to the button's...

To small!
Is what I keep telling my wife.;-)

No I can't complain. It used to be a apartment...it is over 4 m by a bit more then 6 m, nearly 26.5 m2.

Due to the moving and all what goes with it, I didn't managed to spend much attention to my button collection, for a few years. Still a lot of things to do over here, but lets say we are settled for the best. And BTW, I still didn't finish the job with that large cabinet.... :( Weather being bad ove...

Nice collection!
Love them all.

Like this one too; East African (Askari) Nember of the Lettow-Vorbeck Freikorps in Munich (May 1919)

I know that picture, but not the story.
Here is a pic of a African NCO in the Belgian Congo army, it is a early period picture.
Don't remember where I copied it from....so no story either....

Nice "twist"!

Thanks!
I planned to get the doors in today, but the storm decided otherwise....:-(

Hey guy's! Thanks a lot all. ...we ended up with....the biggest RR we ever had! A giant, very handsome and gentle dog. He was 6 years old when we got him at the end of last summer. He needed a new home ....for the third time... It took us, twice, a six hour trip to Germany. First to check the situat...

Absurd!

Thank you.

Thanks!

Love them too!
I got one, but it turned out to be a bogus...
So it stayed with that one.

Thanks.
Here is a little try out with part of my Congo stuff.
But I need to clear it all again, in order to put the glass doors into the cabinet.

Hello, thanks a lot! The original idea of making one huge display case on the wall opposite to the entrance will not be a fact, soon. To much other priority's in the house to look after. But I am getting close, with the over 3m long show case I managed to get. https://i.servimg.com/u/f90/17/44/33/68...

Thanks!
It's home.
Not sure how I will display it.
But in the meantime here is a pic with my 4 th lancer outfit.
Sorry about the junk, but I am reorganizing the bunker.

Very nice helmet!

#88 is a Dutch model but used by a few other nations too( markings in the helmet could give a clue!)
#79 is a WWII Italian helmet

#9 is a Belgian post WWII Belgian Civil Protection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Civil_Protection

First little research I did, gives; "Van links naar rechts zien we de enige zoon van Baron Henri de Fierlant : Adriën de Fierlant , in zijn uniform van luitenant 2e. Lansiers , die omkwam in het jaar 1908 in het Congolese LUBA gebied als Agent voor de Belgische firma LOMAMI ." Meaning; From left to ...

Love them both!
Well done.

b.loree wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:27 pm

Congratulations, that is huge! I had no idea they could enlarge to that size in the early 1900's.

Exactly my idea too, but it appears that even bigger was possible too.
I have seen life size pictures of king's, recently.

Thank you all for the appreciation.

Thanks.

..... The helmets have been all boxed up and sent back to Singapore via usps. The shipper at the showground wanted $5000 for the four boxes to be shipped back to Singapore and same four boxes cost me $600 to ship from usps postal service. Incredible! It happened to me too. Had a valuable item, as b...

Thanks.

Hey Peter,
well done!
One more book to put on my wish list at the end of the year.

Thanks!
I was asking myself how big pictures could be made back in those days, must have been a the turn of the century...

Just got my self a BIG picture of a NCO with a lancer regiment.
According the coat of arms it must be somebody of the de Fierland family....
Never knew such big photographs had existed...

Amybellars wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:29 pm

Pictures show my loot for the first two days.

Regards
Amy Bellars

Wow!!
What did you do the third day!!??

911car wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 23, 2019 2:44 pm

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Looks like the so called Dutch helmet we discussed...
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Thanks for showing.
I used to have a fort like the one, you are showing when I was a child back in Kitega (Burundi), as a playground.
Brings back many happy memory's.
I must say the uniform display, is a very typical African display... (lol!)