Very cool helmet. Congratulations!

New to me as well but you can never know everything in this hobby. Thanks for posting.

Beautiful and ultra rare! Well done

The chin scales did come in different sizes in my experience. In rebuilding them I use the "number of scales" as my means of measurement. So for example...a "15 scale + end fitting" is a common size. The longest scales I have encountered, were 17 scale plus fitting. Now, if you had a helmet missing ...

Excellent helmet John congratulations!

Simply, the best show I know of in North America.

Thank you John hopefully Joe will grab this and put it on our list. There are so many variations in markings so we need as many as we can get.

Sorry I am coming in on this late. A helmet with the leather in such bad shape and even missing parts of the shell only has value in its metal fittings and whoever bought it did so for those. There was no way for this helmet to be restored as is unfortunately. The Prussian Guard eagle helmets shown ...

Excellent addition to your collection, very nice condition!

Never knew Belgians wore this style of cap. It reminds me of the British and Canadian ones. Congratulations!

Flat infantry scales, infantry wappen.

Yes Jonas, not as challenging as the last Dragoner! I am really looking forward to some information on Johan Weber.

This helmet belongs to James and was purchased at the SOS 2018. The helmet belonged to Johan Weber as it has his name tag in it size is 57cm. As usual, any information that can be provided on this individual would be most welcome. Problems: Both visors need restitching, helmet and fittings are very ...

Ok here is one from the Von Plessen General's helmet that I worked on:


Ed Schultze, sounds like a used car dealer from Detroit

My pictures were lost on my original post, I will track them down and repost. The most surprising colour that I had never seen was black, which again it was from one of Randy's helmets.

Funny, in my experience the beige has been the most common. I did do a post on this topic with the help of Randy Trawnik from Age of Kings. I suppose the photos were lost, I will check.

Yes, a very detailed and excellent post, it is great to see it being revisited. I am very glad the pictures were immune from Photobkt.

Thanks Karel for taking the time to repost, that is a truly unique and spectacular helmet!

The spike top came from a dealer in Germany but I know nothing beyond that.

The helmet as it is today completed with a new original neusilber officer spike. Scout 17 tells me the new spike screwed on perfectly. It is always a gamble when replacement original spikes are purchased, there is no guarantee they will fit. https://photos.smugmug.com/Completed-Restorations/i-7t7tpZ...

On another note....my forum "Public Relations Team" sadly let me down at the Show as our Banner was "accidently" left behind somehow in Minnesota. :( This led to my most embarrassing moment of the Show when a member from Norway had to have me paged over the Show's PA so that he could find us. As usu...

Small man wearing cowboy boots and a large cowboy hat, whiskered face and glasses! :) All kidding aside, the tables are numbered, the Show booklet has a map showing table locations. In addition and more importantly, the Pickelhaubes.com Banner will be displayed above the tables.......Right James? :t...

I will try and fix this guys, the problem is tracking down the original photos from the thousands I have on my computer. I found the first 2 and will continue the search.

Thanks John, that makes more sense.

Thanks Joe for that information, another anachronism is these troops being issued with swords. One last thing.......take a look at the soldier on the left side of the tallest individual in the centre of the picture, his chin strap is up underneath his wappen. Very unusual.

A recent purchase from Age of Kings. It goes nicely with my M15.


Screw post fasteners would indicate an older wappen.

Jonas de P. Thank you for generous recent donation.

According to my wife who does all of our bookings, this is common. Many hotels do not book this far ahead and if they do, the price is outrageous!

My thanks to Warren P for his recent donation to the forum operating fees.

House, wife, children......All Very Expensive Commodities!!

Very nice congratulations.

Welcome, thank you for posting these pictures and providing information on the Show.

Well Kris...I had no collection in 1978...no Polaroid to show. I hope you still have most of the helmets in your picture!

Baden kokarden:

The top pair are from a Dragoner helmet and are the large 53mm size.

There is an excellent article on The Kaiser’s Bunker about care and preservation written by our member Tony Schnurr. His site is also the best on line Haube reference in English that I know of.

I am going to fix this post.

I totally agree Jonas.....PhotoBucket did the forum a tremendous amount of damage simply because, I and other members refused to be forced to pay their new fees. There has never been a site like this in Imperial collector History at least in North America, and much of it is gone I am also not please...

I would like to encourage members when they have the time to go back into old threads and repost their pictures. I am in the process of doing so with "Kokarden" and I have started a new thread on Officer Kokarden. Obviously, we can't repost them all but the major ones which have been permanently lis...

I am trying to repost pictures which were destroyed by PhotoBucket. We did not have a thread specific to Officer kokarden so here goes: https://photos.smugmug.com/Kokarden/i-bJGHpJD/0/8dc38739/M/IMG_1239-M.jpg Prussian style Reichs Kokarde introduced in 1897. Three piece construction. https://photos...

I was in the second year of my 37.5 years of teaching High School History!

Great to have those pictures back, thank you John.

Very good Peter, I think we just have to learn some of the "quirks" of this new forum system. This is my hope anyway.

Thanks Karel, I will check.

Larcade produced 2 volumes, one on the Imperial Infantry Regiments and the other Cavalry . I bought mine in the 1980’s straight from a Parisian book store. I got the chairman of my school’s French Department to make the call and arrange the purchase. Larcade’s books were the most definitive pickelha...

Same here Dennis, that’s one of the other fun parts of the Show, meeting members for the first time. I left the holes as they were hidden by the wappen.

I use the Schnurr method....spray painted coffee cans with the plastic lids on both ends of the can. This gives good support and is a very cheap solution. You do have to drink the coffee however.

Excellent example in great condition! Congrats Karel. Do we have that maker in our label archive?

Well...that was quick, I guess it pays to advertise on our site and quality sells easily. Congratulations Arran!

Thank you Joel, very nice to have quick tech support when problems arise.

Yes, me too. Have contacted tech support. Supposedly fixed. B