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Okay, Gus, I've pulled your leg enough on this, and I'll replace my wink with a smile. :D Skøl! K-B

All right, Gus, if it'll make you happy. My modest collection of items from the 108th: Tony, if you ever grow tired of that Tschako, you might be able to talk me into taking it off your hands! Cheers, K-B

Gus, Son of a beach? Come on, talk your way out of this! :wink: K-B

Sweet! Congratulaions, Tony! K-B

Fantastic, Gus! One question, though: Do you live in Florida? You said something about "sunny beaches"? :wink: Cheers, K-B

Joe, Just to be sure I understand correctly: are you referring to the Leib-Gendarmerie? There were three types of Guard Litzen: double white, Old Prussian white, and Old Prussian yellow, but I don't see any Litzen on the photo either. Maybe some of the uniform experts can help us further...

Beautiful helmet, Chas. K-B

I don't want to know ... :wink: K-B

Mike, I seem to be one of the few unfortunates who does not have an FAR 44 helmet! I do, however, have an M15 spiked helmet marked to the 8th Corps Train Abteilung which caused me to do a little research on the 8th. FAR 44 was also part of 8th Corps headquartered in Koblenz. Randy Trawnik's new...

Thanks, Otto! K-B

All right, Gus - it was either/or, right? Cheers, K-B

Gus, Thanks for getting this thread back on topic! I am looking for a box at this writing for the "tin can and stick" (unless I can persuade my wife to explain her digital camera to me). You slay me! K-B

Chip, Of all the possible explanations offered thus far, that is undoubtedly the "porust." :wink: Just kidding. K-B

Mike, Good catch on the cross-belt and square visor. Your eyes are much better than mine! Joe, look at page 95 of Randy Trawnik's book for a nice example of a guard grenadier. Also see the cover for a nice guard dragoon (note that the grenadier's issue guard star is flatter than the...

Joe, The text on the card isn't much to go on. A better translation might be simply "Before class." Were it a true "class photo" taken on the first day of training, for example, I would expect it to read "Vor der Einjährigenausbildung." This seems to me to be a snapshot taken one day before...

Joe, I forgot to mention that Unterricht implies classroom instruction. The text translates as: Prior to one-year (volunteer) training. From left to right (list of names) Hope this helps, K-B

Joe, The word appears to be Einjährigenunterricht, i.e. training. Skøl! K-B

Joe, The uniforms are very dark, but both helmets seem to have guard eagles/stars and chinscales. That certainly is a dapper chap with the derby. :wink: K-B

Well, at least the helmet has a Prussian kokarde to match the tunic! The item description is too rich to pass over without comment: emperor-calibrate - a wonderful piece of machine translation. Kaiserreich was probably misspelled Kaisereich and spat out kaiser=emperor and eich=calibrate. I'm...

Gus, I doubt very seriously that those are military shoes; but as you said, they will probably display well. I bought a pair of boots from r-n-g a year or so ago. He makes a lot of his profit on postage, and if you read his feedback - especially his replies to the negative comments he has...