Helmet collector cards

[J.LeBrasseur]

A few years ago at SOS and good friend and fellow collector gave my son this binder full of French and Imperial German collector cards, very similar to Baseball or football cards.

there are 100 plus cards in the book, and they are all numbered, so I know there are many missing, have been looking on Ebay France etc. with no luck finding more...

Back have helmet descriptions in both English and French, and many of the descriptions are by the late great J.L Larcade

Curious if anyone else here has some of these and knows more about them?

James

 

[Lars13]

Hi James,
I've seen these cards as the back cover of the French "Uniformes" magazine from the 1980's, four cards per page. French and German helmets only on the ones that I own.
Regards,
Lars

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

awe, so they came off the back covers of the magazine, makes sense!

thanks for info Lars.

James

 

[KAGGR#1]

Hi James,
I've seen these cards as the back cover of the French "Uniformes" magazine from the 1980's, four cards per page. French and German helmets only on the ones that I own.
Regards,
Lars

Lars
I was going to report the same information
but you beat me to it
I have a few of these complete magazines
I think maybe that one of them has that great article
about the capture of the German Army regimental flags
by the French at the start of WWI this resulted in the flags
no longed to be carried into battle .
The French made a big production of the captured flags
and put them on display in Paris .They stayed there until WWII
when the Germans occupied Paris the old Imperial flags were taken back to Germany .
Then some of these same flags were taken by the Russians at the end
of WWII to Moscow .They were trooped in the Russian Victory parade .
Steve

 

[Lars13]

The "Uniformes" magazine was my first encounter with detailed militaria info, later followed by John Walter's "The German Bayonet". There was no turning back after that