Recent content by Steve Nick

Amy: Very nice and original. That Wappen is spectacular!

Wine glasses! That seems like a good idea. Cheap, a uniform height and chemically benign. Thanks for sharing.

Gabe: Lucky you! These are very hard to find. I have had an M15 officer''s spike sitting in the parts drawer for years but I've never encountered a helmet.

Wow! You have an excellent display area.. Museum quality and very tastefully presented.

It's a great book with some limitations but once you understand them it's quite useful. I found it helpful when I built my database of the German Army as of August 1914.

Khrushchev. You'd have to be a very VIP to be seated beside Jackie Kennedy.

Welcome to the forum. My family background is Scottish, although being from The Borders, whether they were Scottish or English depended on how the battle was going.;)

Nice example.

Here's my example. The "poster child" for the imposition of regulations limiting the height of spikes.

Yes. Prussian and the Reichskokarde.

Well, forgive my using the Napoleonica topic as a segue to post these Regimentalaly marked wind coasters. They showed up in an auction in Bath, Ontario, just west of Kingston. I assume these came out of the Officer's Mess after the disbanding of the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment at Kingston in...

Gorgeous Helmet!!

I remember when I was just starting out on the collecting journey in the 1970's the show I liked the most was the Lower Canada Arms Collectors shows held at the armouries of the Royal Montreal Regiment. Ben Weider (the Fitness/Bodybuilding guru) lived in Montreal. He was obsessed with anything...

Bruno: I can't recall exactly. It was eleven years ago., but I think I still have photos I took prior to selling most of the helmets. I'll have a look around to see if I can find them

Attaching a photo of the collection prior to the 2014 "downsizing". I forgot that I also had a Garde Eiisenbahn helmet with the Landwehr Eagle. Double Butt Kicking now !!