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    Selling up

    Dear Mates Woznotwos & Coert--- keep your minds busy - use the hiatus to read anything. Study up on the helmets you like so when you are reactivated you have even more knowledge at least keep up with good books..RAndolpho
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    Loss of a Forum member, my brother

    An authentic American Patriot randolpho
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    Jager Zu Pferde Pickelhaube

    Hello -- don't panic ... These have gone on ebay for $ 1600 and up. You have a wartime-- issued-- helm which is quite unusual!!!! -- the kokardes can be found.. If some day you find a better example - this one might be sold- if not--- you have one. An older more experienced collector...
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    Mint, unworn Pickelhauben with Talcum Powder

    As I remember- it is also called pralinenn - in Germany (sp?)- is similar to what happens to chocolate- when it is kept too long- developing a whitish coating and it can ( sometimes ) be scraped off using your finger nail to reveal a shiny surface- but would you want to??? Yes. it is...
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    New helmet, need help with markings

    James--- Briebrich --- I have a 1917 Probe muetze to the schule .. Unteroffizier Vorschule--- Randolpho AHZ
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    My Schutztruppe uniform

    7th
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    My Schutztruppe uniform

    6th try
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    My Schutztruppe uniform

    5th try - I have been trying to answer you ---- see Jurgen kraus ex curator Bayern Armee Museum Ingolstaft german kolonial book --pg 294 - (Militaria Verlag bk is for sale on line) for a rock similar to yours but with 8 buttons ,, He states 7 buttons were for Reichs Kol...
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    My Schutztruppe uniform

    3rd try
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    Going, but not gone yet (grin)!

    Guten Abend JAAP YOU gave me fine information when I was researching my midshipman's dagger with a Nord Nederland/Deutsch name=Sieffens''''.only a native' with understanding of culture and the region could have offered such...many thanks . You have affected many of us with your -down to...
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    Book to sell - Die Formations- und Uniformierungsgeschichte des preußischen Heeres 1808 bis 1914 - Part 1

    This was 1st published in 1912..Just before the 1st ww .. there was naturally a lack of interest...It was republished in the 1960s when we were dying for info and collecting was really emerging...It has great -----primary info----- directly from the period and the detailed drawings really aid...
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    large 1897 kokardes for kur/jzp helmet

    will trade PRUSSIAN -black & white -- ORIGINAL -- kurassier/jzp steel helmet kokarde for ORIGINAL----- NATIONAL -------BLACK/WHITE & RED KOKARDE --- BOTH---for enlisted kur./jzp helmets with large hole 1897 (((( not repainted)))) AHZ Randolpho size...
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    defeated casing

    thanks sammler freund - I never saw a shell case from Afrika before ---much less one cut to resemble an African mask with an unprofessional looking inscription ---done after the battle with time to kill ???? It took quite a while to Id the town and the reason for the battle ----...
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    A mysterious photo from China

    It is definitely a British Lee- Medford bayonet ca 1888 --- mine is dated in the1890s --- MFG --- AHZ------ Randolpho
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    Steuben Tag Parade 1973

    I posted an answer yesterday which never got here or??? The where a bouts of the schellembaum was never discussed. the Steuben Parade is held every Sept. near the 19th in NYC , on a weekend. Look- if you can _ i'll try also .. The tv coverage of the Krieger Bund was always brief...
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