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Kyle, here some more ideas for your trip: - Ingolstadt: should try to get to a little militaria show (60-80 tables) at the Hippodrom in Greding, about half an hour north of Ingolstadt (21-23rd Sept., from 10.00am) -Nürnberg: must see is the rallye area with its Dokumentationszentrum. There...

a great photo, but I doubt that`s the archduke - he always wore a moustache like the german emperor and in addition, it seems that the general on the photo wears eye-glasses (??)

Congatulation Andrew: for the age a very nice M68 Raupenhelm for Artillery or light cavalry (Chevaulegers) Thomas

Fantastic and thank you for sharing

on my opinion the best of all are the clips on the national days military parades in Chile !

Absolutely fantastic !! Best Thomas

really an outstanding restauration best regards Thomas

For me also looks good. The VIII. Armeekorps was located in Koblenz, and most of its units were in the "Rhineland" regions (including Cologne). So also the manufacturer in "Coeln" (today Koeln) fits very well Best Thomas

Congratulation ! A nice and rare wartime original Tschapka. As having no detachable mortarboard, it could have been very easily also an officers Ersatz helmet (in the field also wearing chinstraps on M91-.posts). A great find !

the above helmet is from my collection and just shows, how it can look like after restauration I forgot to introduce myself - having collected over many years the whole range of imperial headgear, uniforms, acesories, swords, I sold most of it (except helmets and swords) before retirement and...

Congratulations! Helmet is perfect for a (possible) restauration project. Seems to be shell of an M45/48 Raupenhelm (artillery of Chevaulegers) Chinscales must be modified (hanging on lionhead-posts). Origianl L (one part before 1848) or M (after) emblems can be found on german or french ebay...

Looks also original for me. See as reference . the german auction house "321-militaria". he is selling old stock Kuerassier enlisted cocardes. And if you see the pictures, they really look authentic Best Thomas