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Hi Joe, Those are very interesting pics, am I right to understand that those guys were no longer issued spikes at all when they were given the haubes? I mean, looking at George's pic, I think thats a studio portrait and like you said, why removed the spike if he had it. What I dont understand...

and yet, with still another 8 days to go, it has already reached the $ 1000 mark. Hessen haube, everybody wants them.

Hi Joe, It seems that the arty is nt marked, is it possible that the it was one of he infantry haubes and well, its nt difficultto have an arty ball spike mounted and then sold as an arty haube? Its nt marked after all.... Cheers, Bambang

Hi Joe, I noticed that there is a difference in spikes' neck between the french ebay's and militaria online's. Theone on ebay is a 1895 haube, whereas the one on militaria is a 1897, yet the 1897 has an old style pearling on its spike neck, the ebay one has no pearling. Which of these 2 is...

Hi gang, Why the 2 different JR marks on this haube? One is a JR 22 and another is JR 23, since EM haube is govt property, is it common to have a haube from a Rgt 'transfered' to another Rgt, hence the 2 different JR marks...

Hi Joe, Thats a surprsing pic, I have never seen any pic of such haube, and these are nt late war? So, did these haubes appeared together with the felt ersatz, or they came later as the material wasnt sufficient? I understand that the BJA examples are depot/repair made, nt factory made? Thank...

Hi gang, I have been wondering abt those late war ersatz haube, there are some variants of the ersatz that have black pre war leather for front and rear visor and some use brass trimmings instead of the subdued coloured trimmings. Were those kind of haubes appeared as they were (leather front...

Hi guys, I was reading the March 27, 2006 edition of Newsweek, there is an article abt ebay, the title is; Swimming With Sharks: With more people buying goods on online autcion sites, crooks are getting even more aggresive. It was abt someone name Chung who bid for a Patek Phillipe for $...

Hi Joe, Thank you so much for yr kind words, I am really glad that the Indonesian crew left a deep impression on you. Yes, I hope Sean will carry on the legacy. Hope you and the rest of the gang could come down and spend some wonderful in Bali Island, perhaps we could have a pickelhaube group...

Hi guys, There is a bavarian arty helmet with kugel, wasnt bavaria the last kingdom/state to adopt the ball top spike? Then this bavarian arty should be after 1915, which was a wartime arty spike then...

Hi Maggie and Chas, Thank you so much, Uncle Joe is absolutely right there! :D Guess what, Maggie, I managed to 'burped' Sean half an hour ago, :lol: and he burped twice! Btw, Maggie, I had told Silvy abt the tender hug from the gilrs on the forum, thank you so much.

Hi Mike, Thank you so much, yes, as a matter of fact, we called him Hamtaro :) And Tony, You are so very right, thats one of the reason on me choosing "English" name for him. You know what, when I was studying abroad, no one could pronounce my name properly: bambang witono angkawijaya, and...

Hi guys Otto, thank you so much for posting the pics for me! :sunny: Ah, Tony, now you know how I look :D Btw, I am the one in blue shirt wearing glasses, yes, you are right, i believe I am the only one in Indonesia that collect haubes, well, infact no one has any idea what 'pickelhaube' is...

Hi Brian, Thats an amazing work! You do wonders with pickelhauben restoration. cheers, Bambang

Hi guys, Phew, what a week!! Its been a very tiring week, Sean is home now, and we are adapting on parenting and we just realized that a newborn is nt easy, we are still figuring out what he wants, what does his cries means, his drinking rhytm etc. Btw, he weighted 3720 grams and 53 cm tall...

Hi gang! I am a father now, a very proud father of Sean Nicholas Alexander Angkawijaya, yes, he has a loooooong name :D Sean was born on 28th Feb 2006 at 0838 hrs. A very happy and proud father 8) :D Bambang

Hi James, My expecting wife goes "awwwwww" when she saw Eric, and she thought that kinder kuirass could be found everywhere! As for the kinder helmets, are the 3 of the same size? cheers, Bambang

Hi guys, Is this a good "schewin"? http://cgi.ebay.com/Pickelhaube-Spike-Helmet-Casque-Helmet-Germany_W0QQitemZ6605874024QQcategoryZ13965QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Cheers, Bambang

Hi guys, I was reading Jan K Kube's book "A study of German Helmets & Uniforms 1729-1918" and on page 208, there are 2 pics of the "Historisches Militar-Museum, Koblenz" and it was stated as ca 1938, then on page 213, 3 pics of the personnla collection of Bonsack Collection, 1939. What happened...

Hi Corky, Nice helmet! And thats another new thing for me to learn, I really didnt know/expect that, apart from M15 JzP, a blackened M15 Kurassier does exists. So, how many variants of M15 Kurassier are there actually? I mean, Lachmann is known for its 90 degree rear visor, now this, a helmet...