Entrée.. I know Brian will post rest of pics.

This is what Randy has on his tables.

We can see them on his website but seeing them all nicely sitting there is just like helmets yelling 'come and bring me home'

Peter,

The side post is easy, I should have the cover for it. Will check when I get home. On flight to LA now to attend SOS in louisville

Hi Peter, I have encountered both but they are usually riveted rather than stitches at buckle areas

Gustaf wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:14 am

Well, it looks like SOS will be canceled for me this year, Jeff has posted his latest catalogue and by 3:05 Central time I should be bankrupt.

And you are still rich after 3.05 central time.

J.LeBrasseur wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:41 am

My poor baby, so many parts!

James

LOL Like some surgical process right??

Schiavona13 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:32 pm

Amy How do you remove de diesel smell ?

I raised it with water and reapply lubricant.

So far my first soaked in helmet works

I am going to try John's potato method

The rust remover that pink jelly thing is called loctite natural jelly.

My diesel has turned darker brown again so rust is taking off.

Hope it helps.

The rust remover, the pink jelly thing, removes the rust by "eating" it up but the polish surface will also have a different shade of colour. I have 2 lobsterpots shoaking in diesel and I do a check on their progress every quarter and seems good. The rust drops off bits by bits without aff...

Nice find, Alan

When I started this hobby, my aim was to preserve history. We all guard our collection well so as not to allow any fakes that flow into our collection. I do have to say that it is amazing skill but my first reaction was - if this item flow into the market as original then our line of defence is down...

Pardon me if I may sound too offensive.

Wouldn't one call this re-work a fake?

Nice

Alan, nice tall spike helmet.

Keep it that way!!

wow, nice shakos and covers.

When am I going to find one??

SkipperJohn wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 4:36 pm

Very nice Amy!
I have a rolled edge felt with chemically darkened and painted fittings.

John

Oh John, cmon, show pics of the rolled-edge. They are hard to get and what's more chemically darkened. Wow, show it !!!! I want pics!!

Congratulations Amy! I saw one of these once, many years ago, but did not buy it. It was in the days before the internet and some "expert" told me that they never used stitched leather around the bottom edge of a felt or cloth Pickelhaube. I could kick myself for believing some of the adv...

This is a lovely piece.

Cmon guys, you guys hide treasures and have not been posting all your finds. I found the forum a tad quiet so am here to inject some life.

Helmet 5, most interesting of all.

No rear spine and no evidence of any holes drilled on the steel body or the visor.

Helmet 4, rear spine is about 1cm away but liner is a replacement.

Helmet 3, rear spine is an inch away from spike base.

sorry this one is the liner for helmet 2, which I think it is rear spine is incorrect with it touching the spike base and having a foldable end.

Helmet 2, rear spine touches the spike base, I somehow think this one is incorrect.

These are the five of them. Happen to be my playday so played with these 5 brothers




Helmet one - spine one cm away from spike base

OH nono, there is no hole punch on the liner fingers, there is indeed hole punch on liner fingers on the other felt helmet that I have listed separately. Sorry got them mixed up.

https://i.imgur.com/mhDfs0n.jpg https://i.imgur.com/8j2hVqd.jpg https://i.imgur.com/yazGmtn.jpg The one has all matching patina and with a nice liner. Two sets of holes, one set above another to accommodate the same plate. Oh no, its the hole punch on the two liner fingers of this one that is inter...

Haven't studied it thoroughly.
Two sets of holes, someone cut a side for the guard and the guard plate has been there for a long while.
The hole punch at the two of the liner fingers is interesting.

You got a bargain

Hi Amy, I will give instructions for you and anyone else reading. 1. Have the images saved to your computer 2. When logged into Imgur, click on the letter with your initial in the upper right hand corner, then select "images" on the dropdown list. 3. This will bring you to a new page, sel...

Hey John, I don't have the rear spine for kit helmet. They are sized as well I have about 5 kit helmets and the sizes are different. The rear spine sit lower and they have two screw posts, one near the tip and the other one at the bottom. How did you manage to get a kit helmet without the rear spine...

may this new year bring you many more pickelhaubes.

John, let me go home to see if I have one

I have one as well. It is an arty with crossed base and mine has been refurbished as well but mine has black leather covering up the old holes I would like to see pictures of your Arty Hessian if that's possible. :) Mine has also black patches on the inside were the old holes were, just like on Amy...

I have finally upload a pic on my profile.

Merry Xmas to everyone, its Xmas eve here and I plan to spend the quiet night with all my spike helmets, literally I am spending my Xmas eve and most probably Xmas day with all these old men. I am not complaining and am enjoying myself :-}

Really really nice. I am envious

Very nice uhlan. Most don't have the stars and yours have it.

Congrats

Merry Christmas to all.

Coert u started the pics of hessian helmets going. Hessians are hard to get and when you find them, they are expensive.

Here is a lot literally a lot but yes it is ONE LOT of helmet bodies for sale. Total there are 14 bodies. 2 of them are with front and back visors with liners while the other 10 of them have no visors. Out of the lot, there are 2 officer helmet bodies. There is one helmet with size 60 stamped on the...

hmm, for sure with my current skill, I will "kill" the helmet. So far I am good with stitching job. So let me graduate from my baby class before moving to your expert levels.

The smaller pair of holes are original and the "further apart" pair is newly made to accommodate the plate. The thickness of the brass eyelets is wrong. The battle banner doesn't seem quite right to me with the black ink and the way it is sitting around the upper half of the heraldic eagle...

Very nice helmet Coert, congratulations on adding it to your collection! :thumb up: I once had an example that was depot reworked that I sold to Amy back in late 2006 or early 2007 that I still miss having. :cry: It had a fluted spike on it with the cloverleaf cross base, and old plugged holes behi...

Think I have done it ...so happy. Thank you guys. and let me put up the pics in the latest find Hessian helmet forum to see if Alan can identify which hessian is his LOL.. thank you

I couldn't post it even under Imgur. Maybe I am dumb or what??

Can someone assist?

Hi James, Have been reminding myself to reply to this post and yes I am doing it. I think you are asking if we think there should be the coat of arms to be affixed at the chest of the eagle. Baldwin had one in his book with the marking of NR95 and with a Konig badge. His explanation is that the Fuer...

I agree with Bruno that this is a fake. Sorry to disappoint. I have own many felt helmets and still having them, the liner band are not correct for a felt helmet. The side post reinforced pieces are not of correct proportion if there is ever a need for those sideposts reinforced pieces. The brass fr...

It will be a long drive for me from Singapore LOL

coert65 wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:11 am

Definitely a nice helmet!
Also very nice to see forummembers helping each other out!

Congratulations to the both of you

Always love the wow effect of completing a helmet so I was happy to help others achieve that "wow its complete," kind of feeling.

I would just dust it and not cleaned it till sunglasses have to come into action.

Very nice helmet, congratulations.