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Thanks again for the quick response! I was asking just to make sure that the missing spine retainers aren´t a red flag.This field of yours is far too complex to get an understanding from 2hrs internet research,I really appreciate your help. Regards

Thanks a lot,Tony! You understood what I meant :D So if I understand you right,the way it looks on mine is legit for a Eigentums piece,right? BTW Impressive piece you posted there! Regards

this shows the rear with the metal part...

Hello, I recently got this helmet and after some reading and looking I have seen look alike helmets that had two "screws" on that metal part on the rear. http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8265/rimg3292fb8.jpg

Hi, again just a short preview :twisted: I couldn´t make out the first 2 words on the 2nd picture,but the rest reads translated like this: Since you have no picture of him as a soldier I send you this card and hope you will enjoy it. The card was sent to a priest,Mr. Josef Eisele,Sulzbach...

Hi Joe, I am kinda busy at the moment so I will take this step by step.I have transformed it already in readable German,just lacking the last 4 words which will follow up soon.Afterwards I will translate in English if nobody else did then already. Here it is: Herrn Max Gerstner u. Frau! Ich...

Hi, I tried reading the picture on the first site of this thread.There is a picture with some soldiers that bears some lines on,it is too hard to read to not make it a mere guess.All I can read well is the word Feldwebel and Untffz thrice. Then there is the postcard,again the scan makes it hard...

Hi Lost Skeleton, thanks for that insight!I will look later..........unfortunately I have to get back to the dimensions,now is that measure given at the site provided by the link a square one or is it just the height? Best AR

Well,not the best scan,but this is what I read.... Recipient: Johann Maier .....I also want to tell you that we leave Munich on Tuesday.We are then heading for enemy territory....Thanks to god I am all well,there is a serious about to come for me.Best Wishes for your Mrs. Mother. Fare Well...

Thanks for the link.

No problem with the Suetterlin,keep it coming..... :D

Hi, sorry my delay in response guys. And really no problem with the fun you do,it is really good for the mood :) Thanks for your expertises on what is wrong with or added to the tschako.In regard to the wappen,can anyone give me the dimensions it should have? Best AR

No problem intertech :)

Haha I see,well sad thang the stats got erased :P If you guys are always that leisure like fun is guaranteed over here! Well,sounds like you got lots of Suetterlin to read.Hopefully it is not the standard censored feldpost :D Best AR

:D No problem with reregistering after I was being told you wouldn´t object. Well a short introduction: I am a collector of German militaria,mostly police identification credentials from the "dark side" with the main interest on customs agency,but I also have some WWI ICs and a few very nice...