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Your marking is Landwehr Regiment 18 Bataillon I (the landwehr regiment have in 1870 only two bataillons) company 3 weapon 154 This one was with the LR46/II in the combinierte Niederschlessische landwehr regiment (LR18/I-II and LR46/II) This one was part of the Landwehr Division 3

Hello Your faschinemesser is an standard Bavarian infanterie sabel Mod 1838

I read LG 1890 It's for Land Gendarmerie This helmet have the guard eagle wappen

Hello I have this buckle which has a different crown than the standard models What do you think??

Hello I am sory but the internal fixing of the caterpillar is not true, (this is fixed by a leather strap and never by nuts) regards Bernard

Here are pics of one standard oldengurgische wappen Mod 1867 never disassembled

Hello Curiously most of the M 67 pickelhaube with M1871 wappen with sliders are from the great-duchy of Oldenburg, the ones that I have or I have seen, have only M 67 prussian standard eagle with oldenburg coat of arm. You say "Not every contingent used the sliders. Bremen and Anhalt never...

Hello This pickelhaube was modified after 1871. All the M 1867 pickelhaube have only M1867 wappen with two sliders (never bolts). When the plate has been lost we can found two types of assembly (both with M1871 wappen) For this pickelhaube the wappen is standard Mod 1871 with threaded bolts; in...

Thank you John Regards

Thank you for your answer If you can make me one pics of the Malta kokarde and one of the IR75 marking Regards Bernard

Hello I am writing articles about pickelhaube of the franco prussian war 1870-1871 I need the following pics - Hanseatische M1867 pickelhaube with Malta cross cocarde - Mecklenburg M1868 picklhaube - IR33 or 34 M1860 or 1867 wappen with swedish banderole - Reuss M67 wappen and cocarde -...

Hello Just to say that this wappen is not conform to the 1860 helmet because it is a 1871posterior model The "good" model is the M1860 wappen with a different design of the head and especially the presence of two feathers at the base of the tail instead of three like this; Regards

Hello About the pickelhaube of jupiter 66, it is not possible to say if this is Saxe Coburg Gotha or Saxe Meningen We can see the second marking after IR95 is 3BRIR82 this 3th battalion is composed of soldiers of the two duchies RIR82 (I Armee, IV Reserve Korps, ResD22) I Bat Sonderhausen II...

Hello I add a link for the readers of my book to download and print one additional appendix (Annexe 4) that I made and I have removed of the book because it was exceeding a number of page set by the publisher.(one page in excees !!) It concern all the AK (Armee Korps) in 1914 with all components...

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