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I have mentioned that this person also served in the French Legion - as family legend says. Maybe you would be interested - here is a picture (this time not photo) supposedly of him. The uniform looks like the uniform of the Foreign Legion of this period. On the back of the picture it is...

Joe, >The hat is a Pickelhaube but it seems like a later version than the 1842 Doesn't it look like a schapo? The golden edging of the top let me think so. Pickelhaube from this angle would look little bit different - without this edging. On the other hand - quality of drawing is far from...

Hi Joe, thank you for reply. Person in question was born in 1827 and in 1857 emigrated to the USA. So his service years were sometime between 1845 and 1857. Besides, family legend says that he also served in the French Foreign legion at the beginning of 1850'. So not sure, whether this...

Hello all, I have this painted photograph. Supposedly, it was taken during 1850 - 1856, and supposedly it was painted by the person on this photo himself - so can think that uniform is real. The person on this photograph was said to serve in either Württemberg or Baden army. My questions are...