That is a real beauty

Well done finding it

Jonas

Amazing pictures from both you guys, its like eatch picture is telling you just enough to have your mind triggered just wanting to see more of them

Its a great foto collage

Jonas

Have to close in with tony ,not a good one ,sorry

Jonas

With a very wild guess i think its a good one at least thats what my first feeling tels me,could be way of on this one

Jonas

Burned fingers with this one ,and its pretty obvious

Jonas

Thats a nice collection bayonets you got there,wel done

Jonas

If the materials as wel of the sewingthread they used on this cap thus not light up under uv light i would not worry However i whas told when your first feeling tels you its not good you have to decide for your yourself if you can live with the doubts you now have on the kratchen Guess you will find...

There is a ghost wandering on our site

Jonas

I would leave it as is messing with those splitpins is always a risk you do not know if the pins would loosen as wanted or if they break
And even if you get lucky bending them back, squeese thight as it was ,you wil not sucseed in this

Jonas

I have to stay with my first observation then, in my eyes it has never been a schirmutze but regarding to the stiffener it was mearly a little hunch for it i guess

I know its not always the case but in a chirmutze you often find a little metal stifner to give a schirmutze its high form is there in your case any sign of sutch a metal stifner being sewn in between

Jonas

They are indeed but did not find one in al my years of collecting
If i remember well i think i never seen one on a fair here in belgium

Think you nailed it with this beauty

Jonas

Nope not me

Just looking to it ,seems there is a name on the visor as well

Nice one

Jonas

That is a nice raupe ,i had a chance on buying one 5 years ago but never seen one cince then so they are not that common i guess


Jonas

Amazing on finding al that information on that man
Its another great restoration for you
Just hope that the label will not damage to mutch when you are sewing on the visors

Jonas

Very hard to find thats the famous football construction ersatz variant

Well done amy on this one particulary in this condition
Will be hard to find a better one

Jonas

Guess we al should keep pressing that like button
That is a great collection well done

There are still some nice quallity helmets to find
Not just one but a hole bunch of them
Must have been a great show

Jonas

Great finds, guess your pretty happy with them
And what a condition

Jonas

Thats one you don't see every day
I just love those rare ersatz helmets
I have similar one but on mine the fiber visors are sewn on the felt body instead on the use of rivets
You have found one i also would like to ad to the collection

Jonas

A nice helmet even more greater is the fact that you can track down the owner

Great find

I got a hart attaque when i was looking to the last picture
That are a lot helmets at one table
I love them all!!!!!
Oh how i would love the see batallion tschako in my collection

Jonas

Great picture from our coasttown ostend

Jonas

To al that can attend the SOS have great fun and when you can guide us virtual to the show by showing us some great haubes as wel as other interesting stuff
And after the show have a safe trip back home to you all

Jonas

Not yet have come up with a plousible explanation for it but in my opnion ,those cardboard or papier mache helmets are far to weak to not have the counterdisc on the inside . the splitpins can rip out so easely ,the counterdisc is there to prevent this in the first place . when they where assembeled...

Ah that explaines it ,thats my first time to see it marked as sutch
The depaheg marking sounds more familiar to me

Jonas

Any idea on what the marking L.B. DOTTI would stand for ...
At least if i seen it correct
Also never seen sutch interiour on that garde landwehr
There nice helmets

Yes if you please becose now its a thread without any pictures so thats not mutch fun is it

Jonas

Cant say if anything is fake to this one
It looks al good to me including the eagle
One thing that looks a bit funny is the schubbekette hangs on one side lower than on the other or it could be the foult on the angle of the picture

It looks very very nice

Wel done sir

Jonas

In the hands of brian it will be a beauty when he is finished with it
He is a great teatcher on restoring helmets even on a distance from america to belgium
Your the man brian

Never seen before so i am very curious what this one will turn out to be

Jonas

Has seen the live so it can tell a history
Its an oldy but still a nice oldy

As far as i can tell in the marking from the Res.J.R 88 i think below it states 1B guessing its 1st Battalion

Great cap and a great explenation on its field history

Jonas

Another great one to folow as you go along in the restauration of this helmet

Good luck brian

Jonas

Great to see some other spiked helmets than the german ones

Jonas

Great ones

Jonas

Nice helmets

First time to see one of these .... its a nice one non the less
Cant provide further information on this one

Jonas

I do not think that wappen is original it is crudely made in my opinion

Jonas

Great find on that show

Outstanding helmet would take the distance as wel to pick this up

These are in one word astonishing
There great

Jonas

Maybe this is something for a part of the mistery on that marking in the helmet LEIB-GRENADIER-REGIMENT KÖNIG FRIEDRICH WILHELM III. (1. BRANDENBURGISCHES) NR. 8 – FRANKFURT A. O. III. Armeekorps, 5. Division, 9. Infanterie-Brigade Das Regiment verdankt seine Entstehung der militärischen Katastrophe...

These are my favorites!!! i would leave it as is becose one wrong move could make it even worse just place it onto something so that it no longer rests on its visors an of into the collectorscave

Jonas

Looks nice

Jonas

Thats a nice one , did not have the chance to see one let alone to have one

Great one

Jonas

Could not have found a better home
Well done

I will close with " arran" have no idea what it means but the helmet is a great one