M15 Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 14

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Here is a nice, untouched example of a M15 Tschako issued to a soldier of the Großherzoglich Mecklenburgisches Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 14. The Tschako is stamped size 55, date stamped 1916. It has an f stamped into the top indicating that it went through a repair depot. B.A.XV is ink stamped onto the inside neck guard.
The Battalion was garrisoned in Colmar, Elsass.



All comments welcome.



Thanks
Hans

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Thanks for your interest, I've corrected it.
In fact, I meant to say that it's been in my collection, safe and sound, for 60 years.
At that time, a Shako JB14 was worth the same as a Stahlhelm or M1 U.S. in other words, maybe €30. At 10 o'clock in the morning, it was still on sale, on the pavement...
I bought it because it was German, and from the First World War, but I didn't know what it was. 😁
Another era.
With the kids in my neighbourhood, we used to put this kind of helmet on our heads and play ‘war’ in the wastelands.
We liked spiked helmets because they were light and, above all, small. If you put on a Stahlhelm or a US M1, especially without a liner, you couldn't see anything.
🥴
 
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Congratulations on your M15 Clovis 57. I would have killed for a German helmet when I was a kid. Any German helmet. Nobody that I knew had one.
 
I'm lucky enough to have been born and lived in the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen and in particular in METZ, the showcase fortress of Napoleon III in 1870, then of the Kaiser, then of the Führer. (In 1940, Sepp Dietrich and the Leib-Standart AH were garrisoned in METZ for 6 months.) I was born 10 years after WW2, and in the years 60 to 75, there was an enormous amount of material from these 3 wars, in attics, castles and barracks.
For example, in Dieuze, a small town in Moselle, there was a German barracks (from the time of annexation around 1880). The French regiment garrisoned there was the 13 RDP dragons parachutistes. Transferred in the 2000s, the barracks remained disused. However, amateur archaeologists have found parts of the pre-WW1 Bavarian 3rd Chevauleger in the attic and under the floors. 😊
 
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The Vosges, still, are a tremendous source of rare militaria artifacts!
I bought several rare objects (all WWII related!) coming from flee markets in the Vosges, the past 20 years.
One of them was a nice gladiator helmet with two police / fire fighters decals on the side, instead of the winged lufschutz decal on the front. A rare configuration.
 
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