Recent content by Claudio

Dear Forum Members, As it's not my area of expertise, I would like to ask for your opinion on the authenticity of this post WWI helmet (M18?). The shell looks good and you can also see some traces of the original paint underneath. Could this helmet be an original WWI helmet that was refurbished...

Hi everyone! Here are the results of Kube’s May 2023 Auction… Enjoy 😉 Best regards C

Wow! Truly quite a sight... very professionally done the display and storage... like in museums! The way I like it.... well done!!!

Dear forumites, I'd like to submit to your expertise some buttons my brother was able to acquire. The larger buttons to the left are to me not known. They look surely Imperial German and might be Colonial, see the sun on the background. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for your most...

This Bavarian Tschako of the Verkehrstruppen (also Luftschiffer) was spectacular IMHO … Lot # 4045 Tschako M 1895 für Offiziere der Verkehrstruppen Steifer Korpus aus Ersatzmaterial mit schwarzem Filzbezug, schwarz lackiertem Deckel, Schirmen und Bund, silbernen Beschlägen und feinem hellbraunen...

Guderian served in JB10… 😉

By the way I was lucky enough to get this one: Lot # 4071 Tschako für Offiziere im Hannoverschen Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 10, um 1910 Steifer Korpus mit Filzbezug, Deckel, Bundleder und Schirme schwarz lackiert (krakeliert), schön vergoldete Messingbeschläge. Versplintetes Adleremblem mit Bandeau...

When such a beautiful collection of Imperial headgear is being sold on an internationally reputable auction house like HH and this collection is known by many most serious and senior collectors to be filled exclusively with high quality and untouched pieces, then it’s quite obvious that these...

I particularly liked this one here, too: Lot # 4022 Helm für einen Fähnrich im 1. Badischen Leib-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 109, um 1900 Schwarz lackierte Lederglocke mit runden Schirmen und versilberten Neusilberbeschlägen. Verschraubtes Emblem in Form des badischen Greifs mit aufgelegtem...

I also liked this one very much Lot # 4105 … who got it?

I think that Hirscher wore this DA-Schnalle (LS ribbon bar), see also https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/deutsche-staaten/dienstauszeichnung-3-klasse-1825.html

What’s even more exciting are the details on his swords: it looks like a Totenkopf on the Grip/Handle and below like a miniature of the Maltese enameled cross with of the Brunswick order of Henry the Lion. It would be interesting to know of what colors were the shoulder boards (base white?) and...

Thank you Jens! ;)(y)(y)(y) Here are the description of the 11 orders & medals on Obermusikmeister Hirscher's bar: Braunschweig, Orden des Heinrich des Löwen, Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse, OEK 600; Sachsen-Königreich, Ehrenkreuz mit Krone, OEK 2223; Hessen, Verdienstorden Philipps des...

Wow Steve! 🤩🤩🤩 That’s an amazing collection of iper rare boards you have… thanks for posting them! 🙏🙏🙏 The picture of the IR92 Musikmeister is spectacular!! 😱🤩 Do you have the name of him? I couldn’t identify the 7th and 8th medal on his medal bar though… in the end of the bar he’s showing a...

Are you implying that only the T-base screw type are originals because these are the ones you have only seen? I have seen many of these T shaped type of screw (see below) , but still this doesn't exclude the fact that other types of screws existed.