Brian:Yes I have listed after one for years. I would even be happy with just the wappen in my collection!
Brian, seriously, are you saying that $900 is too expensive for a R109 helmet??.. or did I miss something?There was one for sale at the 2018 SOS for $600. I waffled on it for about 30 minutes, when I went back to the dealer tables it had sold! You snooze ya lose! 2019 SOS a couple of French guys had one but they wanted $900! That’s over $1,200 in Canuck bucks so no sale.
//Brian, seriously, are you saying that $900 is too expensive for a R109 helmet??.. or did I miss something?//
Finally Bruno I can say yes, you missed something. I am marking this day in my calendar!
Brian was talking about the Wappen. Not a complete helmet. Personally I haven't bought a helmet in years, as it's only the Wappen I want.
And Brian, I think I paid $1200 USD for this example and I'd do it again. $900 was a very fair price.
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Bruno, that´s a great example too!!
Do you know something about the wearer? Because the Baden Kriegsstammrollen are still existing, it could be a great tracking!
My example is named two times with a Mr FALLERT. There was no FALLERT in all lists of the LGR109 during the war. The wearer was at the RJR240 that was formed at the end of August 1914 in Rastatt. The Regimentsgeschichte of the RJR240 tells us that this garrison did not have any equipment, so the near garrison of the LGR109 in Karlsruhe had to urgently help with a few trucks full with uniforms and helmets. I know another named LGR109 in collection which wearer also was in the RJR240.
Josef Fallert was taken prisoner in Paschendaele on the 20.10.14, heavy wounded. He died in Boulogne on the 21.12.14 after legs amputation...
Helmet was brought home by a guy of the "Brigade de Fusiliers Marins" from Lorient who fought in Flandern on the other side. I got the helmet 2010 direct from the family in the Bretagne.
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Bruno, on our french forum, we have notified something very interesting during the few last years, of course based on authentic named and tracked helmets.I will try to retrieve his name, Philippe.
You found amazing information on Herr Fallert. Isnt'it strange that a soldier from an ordinary, recently created regiment could go to war wearing the helmet of the Baden army elite? I suppose they were obliged to wear an Ueberzug at all times, at least...
# 109 on the shoulder straps and not the Baden 109 crownThe RIR109 was special. Only the 1st Battalion had the distinction "Grenadier". The other 2 were from the Line. This is why it reads I GrenadierBataillon Réserve Régiment 109. Concretely, only the reservists of the 1st Battalion wore the large Griffon in theory.
Below in the same helmet the mark Leib-Grenadier-Regiment of 1903 and the RIR of 1914.
And 2 photos of reservists from the 2 non-Grenadier battalions, they have the line Griffon. The first still has an M71 tip at Perlring... and it's 1914!!
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