Recent content by Daniel Murphy

These were used in warm climates, but it is just a regular summer weight officers visor cap. I have a badly mothed and shriveled one that was found in Fort Douamont at Verdun in the 20's, when it was being incorporated into the Maginot line. Mine is grey cotton as well, but I have seen gray silk...

These are not the standard colors for camo helmets, however artillery guns crews were issued with about 7-8 different colors for camoflaging the guns. They are much harder to hide and require more elaborate painting. It would be easy for someone to appropriate some of this for their helmet. The...

This was not the Kaiser's, It is a Christmas gift from the Crown Prince. If I am correct it was a porcelain pipe with a likeness of Willy and on the back was that is was a gift for Christmas 1915 and a bag of tobacco. I have seen the pipes and the tobacco bags, but never together. Probably only...

Here is the bottom, which shows the method of construction and the pin protruding from the bottom, is the one attached to the spike as stated above. Unfortunately no gold coins, although that would have made my day as well. :lol: Dan Murphy

I found out that this little helmet had a purpose other than just being cute. It was a ladies tape measure. The spike is attached to a pin around which is wound this tape measure and the spike is what is turned to pull the tape back inside. The tape measure is in centimeters on one side AND in...

As you can see it has the Hohenzollern eagle instead of the line eagle, is complete with chinscales and is one of the rare tin ersatz varieties :roll: Here is a 3/4 side view. Inside of it I could see a strip of cloth with numbers on it and asked my friend for a paper clip to try to retrieve the...

All, My best friend contacted me some time ago and told me he had a spiked helmet he wanted to give to me. On the way to his house, all kinds of thoughts went through my head. Okay, he knows what I have, it must be something rare that he got a good deal on? Maybe something that needs some...

I do not have a photo. However I have an otherwise standard M15 Prussian that has early plastic visors front and back. the plastic is red and is painted black. To affix them to the helmet oversize holes for stitching have been drilled and then they are sewn on in the standard way. This helmet...

Joe, Whatever that helmet is, it does not go with that uniform. The guy is wearing a M 15 bluse from what appears to be a garde or grenadier regt. In addition it looks to be an officer version and he is a buck private. I would say it is a prop of the photo studio. I know this does not ID the...