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Larmo, many thanks for your information. I will share this info with my friends who helped me with this item. The information I have is saying that the man was born in 1851 in rendsburg, that in his reserve time, he worked (and mayby lived) in Hamburg. He was also involved with the care of a...

hello Larmo, Dor you perhaps have some more information about that Pioneer battalion Nr. 9 ?? I would appreciate that.

Sorry I didn't realise that ingenieur is not known in english, it is dutch and french, I should have known., it is an engineer

This week I bought this pickelhaube. It is from an prussian officer of the pioneer reserve. The cross is very clearly to see. The helmet is a little dry and theright sight has a littke dent, but that can be fixed. Inside there is a written name and a very slight stamp mark. The nicest and mayby...

I can place a lot of pictures, but it can be found on several websites. First has 3 pages, the last with some examples of the pictures. http://www.mverhoeks.com/Forten/Fort_Benoorden_Spaarndam/info/01-ben-spaarndam-info.html The other one has more, but a little older pictures. Our fortress is...

I am helping with the restauration of a Dutch fortress belonging to the Unesco world heretidge. During my work there, I discovered a great number of paintings, behind the chalk, made by dutch soldiers during the mobilisation period of WW1. We found beautiful ladies with german feldmùtzen and...

Two weeks ago I bought on an large european militaria auction this Pickelhaube. It is marked with 1.G.R.z.F. 1st Garde regiment zu Fuss. Since these two weeks I am looking on the internet for information. This is why I found this forum. As far as I know is this an enlisted men's pickelhaube...

Hello, My name is Jurgen, Dutch and 47 years old. I am collecting ww1 items for more than 20 years now. Twice a year I am going to France to look and dig on the old battlefields. Therefore I know a lot of places and I have seen a lot of material. Beside this, I also have been to the most musea...