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HI, I just got this german bugle with a strange unit marling: H.K.A.9 It has been manufactured in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Any idea? Thanks for your help! [url=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/p2jm.jpg/]

HI Guys, I have already booked flight and hotel, and I will be happy to meet you there..... \:D/

Bonjour 911car, je pense que nous nous sommes rencontrés à Paris lorsque j'étais au Louvre des antiquaires? Vous êtes Bruno P. si je me souviens bien et êtes un collectionneur très avisé! J'espère que nous aurons l'occasion de nous revoir (j'étais à LA tout l'été 2008).

As promised here they are the pictures of an helmet whith its original cover: this helmet has been found by myself at the Paris flea market (Les puces) 3 years ago. The furnitures dealer who sold it to me found it in a Orleans house when buying the furnitures following an estate. This was the...

here it is my contribution to this post.... my uberzug has painted numbers. I also have an original IR 25 uberzug with red numbers, I am going to shoot it properly to add some informations about the famous stitching of the red numbers. In the meantime....

These helmets belongs to the Berlin history museum collections that I have visited in 2010.... The pictures are bad because the light was very low.. Anyway it is quite rare ones and undoubtely genuine! With the 2 ones battle damaged it is said that the owners have been killed!! I recommend...

HI, I send here a (bad) picture of the rare von Gaede helmet displayed at the Berlin history museum:

Hi, what is the reserve regiment of the IR 87, 1st of Nassau? the RIR 87? If yes, I am looking for the august/september diary of this reserve regiment. This request is related to a helmet in my collection.. and I will tell you its story quite interesting.... Thank you for your help...

Merci Stéphane de ton post qui confirme mon intuition sur le réemploi de plaques à la mobilisation.... même dans la Garde! A bientôt et bonnes fêtes de fin d'année!!

Thanks for you comments, you are all right about the cocades but I found it like this and my golden rule is I "don't touch anything...." I post 2 more pictures as some of you requested and the Illustration magazine picture too: This picture comes from the most famous and popular french...

I purchased this helmet in a french local auction sale one month ago. This saxony helmet was for sale with another saxony infantry helmet. They were both coming from a local estate, typically somebody in this Bourges (center France) family was a WW1 vet. The helmet, a very large size, is for a...

Merci à tous pour vos messages, j'essaierai d'être un intervenant régulier!! Thank you everybody for your kind messages, I would try to be a regular contributor!!

The mark on the right end shows: 1.R.R (1st reserve regiment?) I. B (Ist batallion) 3.C (3rd company), 1914, I I have some nicely marked helmets in my collection, I would be happy to contribute to your stamps list... Pictures will follow the next days My full name is Laurent Mirouze from France

You can notice that the motto design is not the normal imperial guard plates one but the 4rth grenadier regiment one (after 1911) without the 1626 plate....

Hi, new on this website, I would like first to introduce myself as a french collector mainly collecting french uniforms and headgears of the 1910-1915 period; I also collect german militaria picked up on the 1914 & 1915 battlefieds by the french soldiers. For example, one of my last purchases...