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Alan This is a very useful and informative post for those of us who live outside the US. Thanks for taking the trouble to post it. Regards, S.

A very odd strap. Surely they were not made with pop rivets? Now I come to think of it, wasn't Pop Rivets a character in an Arkansas reality TV show? I'll get my coat....

I am no pickelhaube expert and am happy (?) to be shot down in flames, but I’ll disagree with the experts here. I think the entire thing is ok. The overall look, patina, whatever you want to call it is the same on all parts. If we all agree the mint shako and liner are ok, then it’s also ok for...

I've just rechecked the history, and indeed he was! I blame a combination of Fraktur type and getting the two names mixed up in my head! Now to go back and edit those pages!

I think the top one is Rudolph Adolph von Arnim. Perhaps the second one down is Oswald, but it is hard to tell.

Thanks for pointing that out, Francis. I've consulted that site many times. It is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the battle. Add: I've just looked again at this site, and I see that the von Roëll / Weinhagen monument was destroyed during forest clearance work in the 1970s! That...

Although the original Lion has gone, thankfully it is not completely lost. The upper plaque on this bronze reads “Monument to the Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick’s 57th (8th Westphalian) Infantry Regiment on the battlefield of Mars-la-Tour, 16.8.1870”, and on the lower, “From the officer corps of...

One of the gallant young men who died for their country that day was Fusilier Friedrich Bernsau, from the town of Mettmann, of the 10th Company. He would have been with Captain Tuebben's half-battalion. The inscription reads: "Fr. Bernsau, killed in action on 16/8.70 before Metz in the holy...

This is the ravine which halted the attack. apparently photographed not long afterwards: The caption tells us that at the foot of the ravine, under a monument, are the bodies of two brothers, Captain Rudolf von Arnim and Lieutenant Oswald von Arnim, whilst at the top of the ravine is the tomb...

"The Second Company, and that part of the First which had split off northwards, had advanced from the hedge on the St. Marcel road and, mixed in with elements of the 16th Regiment, had along with part of von Hohenhausen’s [company] reached the opposite slope. In so doing, Second Lieutenant...

"During these activities by the 1st Battalion, Colonel von Cranach, riding with the Brigade commander and the Fusilier Battalion commander with Tuebben’s half-battalion, noticed that a further advance on Tronville Wood by the three 1st Battalion companies would widen the gaps that had already...

"The First Battalion took the 1st and 2nd Companies, with First Lieutenant von Warendorff and Captain von Hohenhausen, with the riflemen ahead, into the first line, allowing the combined 3rd and 4th Companies to follow under Captain Freiherr von Bernewitz as a half-battalion, whilst the Fusilier...

"Approaching the battlefield as the regiment did, one is presented with what appears to be a bare plain, rising in a gentle slope north of Tronville Wood to a sharply-pronounced height (857). However, in addition to the depressions previously spoken of, there are also a number of flatly-cambered...

On 18th August 1870 the battle of Mars-la-Tour was fought between a French army of 130,000 men and two Prussian army corps totalling 30,000 men. The Prussians achieved a strategic victory against all the odds, but at a heavy cost. The Prussian Tenth Corps included Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick’s...

He has a "Boer War" helmet that I don't trust, and two of the British WW1 caps are definitely copies (some unfortunate person has paid £1250 for one of them). I don't feel qualified to comment on the pickels, but I know he has also had some very good items. Do not dismiss out of hand, but be...

KAGGR 1870 has linked in this subforum to a really excellent series of papers he's written on pickelhaubes of the 1870 war. They are in French, but you can probably work out the captions to the photos. At the end of one paper he gives some tips which I've taken the liberty of translating here...

Hi Edwin Personally I would not recommend this site for the novice collector. The dealer in question is well known among the UK collecting fraternity and has been the subject of discussion on various forums. If anyone has anything good to say about him, I haven't found it yet. Not that I am...

Thank you for the link, Bernard. This is truly excellent work, and I've saved all three papers to my computer. Best wishes, S.

What an extremely nice group! Is it definitely spelter? If so, it's little short of a miracle that the flagstaff and the faschinenmesser blade have survived.

Most of a nice helmet. But the rear peak looks very much like an add-on: http://cgi.ebay.de/BADEN-PICKELHAUBE-HELME-1867-/220701316265?pt=Militaria&hash=item3362d2d4a9