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I just cant see that myself, with heavy crown wear on the camo paint and all those chips, I would expect to see at least similar damage to the field grey underneath, and it dosnt look that way. Even if you put the crown wear and the chipping down to period damage, how did the camo paint survive...

ahh thanks..I was thinking it was some sort of American slang.

Looks that way Jerry :x 4***e is in for a lot of money on almost every item from early swords to to the dodgy jap helmet. Why do they call it shill bidding btw? Where does the term come from. Andy

You beat me to it Edwin :) Lots of not quite right items Andy

2nd saxon grenadier regt. no.101 Kaiser Wilhelm, Konig von Preusen according to L`armée Allemande en 1914. Based in Dresden. Does look like an interesting project, but will probably go to silly money I`m guessing.. :-x Andy

Puppy on a train track again, pretty straight forward rescue case and that strap looks original

Watch this seller, there are a lot of threads on here about him.

Something not quite right, even the crown wear looks like its been rolled in a bucket of gravel. Agree about those lines, they look to thick. Original paint underneath tho it seems?

Perhaps thats why these things are on the increase.. they are breeding :lol:

Poor thing!! Im getting that puppy on a rail road feeling :cry: Is that the remains of a hess wappen?

Heres the stamp from the ebay one. Those `o` s are not correct. Well certainly diff from the two examples above. A modern typeset I think? The `c` s dont look to great either

Im sure there must be a catch here, but they really are very good if they are remakes. Perhaps a box from storage? I had an Austrian helmet with an "original" liner for about 2 days once. On the pics it looked fantastic, but once I opened the box, you could see the old stitch holes, with new...

I have this book..this picture always makes me weep :/

Well Im sure they do now!! they learned plenty of them last summer :lol:

Thanks again Philippe And a useful article also. Think Im fairly satisfied that its a OYV . Now all I need to source is a set of chin scales. Your input has been really helpful, especially on the wappen, which I was worried about. The restoration is coming on nicely and now Im happy that Im...

I wont upgrade it, I`m certain stars were never fitted to this base. If they ever were it was a long long time ago. Also the front visor is uncovered leather. I know it dosnt really follow that all officers had both visors covered, but my thinking is that a slightly lower quality private...

You cant even contact him by logging on to ebay.com thats a bit daft

Thanks Philipe!! You are a life saver. I have been going round and round with this. The only thing I will say is that there are 2 cockade shadows. A later upgrade perhaps or a collector add on? These pics will help me greatly and Im pleased you confirmed my thoughts on the side posts. What do...

Hi Ron All looks fine to me. The liner, the camo and the strap. They did make them with studs. Heres one I pulled out of a dugout, so totally genuine, alongside one from my collection also studded. The stud has rusted away on the top one, but you can still see it was done that way. They were...

Yep hes built it onto a 1915 pattern :x