Excellent addition to your collection T Congrats!!

Excellent piece! I have never seen one of these with a Reservist wappen before and we are talking 30+ years of collecting. Fantastic.

We should grab those markings for our list.

Yes a desk piece....ink well missing it’s glass liner. Very cool!

Congrats! A Bambis with rolled rim is one of the rarer felt helmets. I don’t think there was any other company that produced this style. Very nice to have that clear company stamp.

A great American hero! Happy SY Day!

Very,very cool Alan, a beautiful display and collection! Congratulations.

Welcome Alex, great to have you join us! Please, make posts, ask questions, get involved and enjoy yourself here.

Some further close ups:

Hi Pete: A picture from my collection which relates to your recent LG repro purchase. I have had this since 1997 when I had the glass replaced and new backing put on. I have never seen a similar photo of LG's up here in CN. These period panoramas rarely include weaponry which is why I bought this pi...

At least, we know it is going to a good home. All collectors know you gotta pounce when opportunity comes your way.

Pictures of the officer KAGGR#1 mitre mentioned above. Thanks Steve!

Many thanks for the pictures Ron. That is the exact helmet I was describing. I had one of those years ago but sold it to fund a military WW1 helmet. Another fire officer helmet characteristic is that the rear visor will be trimmed in white metal. My Rhinelander had this trim but this may have been a...

Again posting this from KAGG#1, pages from militaria catalogues...1961,63 and 68. Orders taken by phone or mail!
My goodness, helmet and uberzug, $30US!!!

KAGGR#1 emailed this to me recently a snapshot of prices and how helmets were bought in 1974:

Beautiful sword. I also immediately thought Prince of Wales when I saw those 3 ostrich feathers. Makers stamp?

Very cool, congratulations Pete!

My vote is, fire service officer helmet and wappen post WW1. The holes in my opinion are for a missing small shield which is often affixed to the eagle’s chest. In the case of the Rhineland fire officer this would be a white metal shield painted green with a raised silver “river” running diagonally ...

Excellent Pete, congratulations.

A tremendous piece of American History Peter ! I love the wappen and cocarde.....red white and blue. At the same time, an example of the influence of German immigration to the US during the 1890’s and early 1900’s

Excellent example Peter and a great piece to add to your collection! Congratulations.

Very nice, great comparison.

Not as large obviously as the SOS but members have found good pieces there in past years. It has been years since I have gone to the MAX, so my knowledge is limited.

Welcome Tom, great to have you with us.

Congratulations Ron, great story and thanks for posting. I have always thought that one of the best parts to collecting are the stories/experiences which are associated with every piece in our collections. I am sure that all of us here on the forum can look at every item in our collection and recall...

Started reading Poilu by Louis Barthas for the second time today. The 2 top books written by CEF WW1 veterans are: Ghosts Have Warm Hands by Will Bird and The Journal of Private Fraser. I have read Storm of Steel but no other German WW1 accounts as unfortunately, I do not read German. There seem to ...

Nice comparison picture John, that really shows the difference between the two models.

Thanks Coert!

Thank you Coert!

Congratulations on an excellent addition to your collection. Always follow the light and buy more hauben!

That is another scenario......the rear visor was replaced but again, I would check under the lining and look for extra lines of stitch holes.

Note that the liner is the M15 style and not dyed black. Typically, a helmet accepted by GR112 in 1913 would have a black liner. This suggests that perhaps the original liner was replaced in 1916. I would carefully pull the liner out and look at the stitch lines on the inside for old stitch holes wh...

Good point Bruno! I have also always wondered why the M95 Oldenburg helmets are relatively easy to find......we are still only looking at one Regiment JR 91 wearing that wappen.

Excellent Chas, very nice piece. I would imagine that somewhere on the net there is a History of sewing machine evolution and the expansion of stitching capabilities.

Interesting John, thanks for the heads up. The ancient Romans also collected urine to be used in their tanning process, so we appear to have gone full circle.

Congratulations T....no surprise as we all know about your high collector standards, great quality always retains it’s value!

That’s it, thanks Sandy! The letters are always the same in stenciled gold paint with the size done by hand. I have always wondered how so many of these ended up in such excellent condition. I bought mine from Randy T long before the creation of Age of Kings.

Excellent James, congratulations on a very rare addition to your collection.

This is a makers mark. Unfortunately, I forget the translation of the letters but someone here will help out. We have discussed this Berlin manufacturer of kit helmets before. I have the exact same helmet in my collection also with the cloth skull pad present. Nice helmet

This filz section can now be accessed by members.

I will fix this.

All I can say, is that I agree that it is Polish.

I always thought that the above helmet had this cloth and leather spine arrangement due to a "period repair" now I am not so sure after seeing the other helmet which is now in Belgium. The rear visor on mine did split along the original stitch line for the liner and this split does appear to have be...

This helmet/post relates to a filz helme recently purchased by one of our European members and like his, it has some unique characteristics. https://photos.smugmug.com/Felt-HelmetsFilz-Helme/i-wJjHndc/0/0e2c69af/L/IMG_6335-L.jpg I have owned this helmet for 20+years and have never cleaned the fittin...

It is about time that a sub forum was created on the Felt/Filz helmets that many of us have in our collections. Here is one of mine that I have had for quite awhile: https://photos.smugmug.com/Felt-HelmetsFilz-Helme/i-RsjpvSQ/0/543f1e43/L/IMG_6329-L.jpg This piece is in good condition, no tears in t...

I have a Prussian pioneer filz with a feldgrau cloth spine which I will post pics of soon. I have had this in the collection since the 80’s. I feel that it is a repair, there is also a leather strip sewen on the inside.

I will contact tech support and see what can be done.

Not surprising that a “civilian “ would say this, as boys I am sure that most of us staged sword fights with sticks or actual wood swords we made from available lumber. In my case, I made swords from the wood slats taken off old style snow fencing.

Excellent find, congratulations! Truly the rarest of the rare. We did encounter a felt tschapka at the SOS this year but it was in worse condition than this piece and did not have the green oil cloth trim or top. Up until that time I had never seen a real original in all my years of collecting other...

I would agree John regarding the spine. You also have the typical brass square nut on your spine whereas the typical kit helmet has an octagonal nut. Interesting that the leather liner was so thin that they decided to add metal grommets. We usually only see this on tschapka liners.