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Hello, I'm searching for photographs of uniforms and equipment of German WW1 mountain and aviation troops. Specifically looking for high resolution images or printed photographs. The idea would be to use them in a new book prject (still TBD), so you need to be the copyright owner of the...

A new treasure. Now looking for the difficult to find pompom ... http://home.tiscali.be/be033830/grenadiermutze.htm JS

Volume 3 has been finally finished and sent to the publisher. It might go in next Schiffers Spring catalogue, but still TBD I guess. I would like to thank all collectors who contributed and who made this book possible !!

SOLD ! Thanks to the buyer JS

I will arrange for some pictures soon. The helmet is also photographed in my book in Vol 2 in case you have it somewhere... (Imperial German Uniforms and Equipment, Schiffer Pub.) I used it to compare with the German and Austrian helmets.

I have a nice Irish Vickers helmet for sale - in green finish - without badge for $500. I will try to put some pictures here later Johan

Probably a commercially made post WW1 helmet The markings are usually "DRP ang" which stands for Deutsche Reichs Patent angemeldet (applied for German State patent ) Johan

That is true. RZM helmets usually had an RZM logo stamped somewhere inside the shell. In addition, many post war organizations also bought helmets on the private market Johan

Hello Gus Yes, one needs to login to see the images. You would need to do so to see the images of the square dip helmet. To see my steel helmet pictures you can go to my web page address (it its a pdf and might take a while to load). It also contains a list of helmet manufacturers...

I made a contribution of the dagger forum some time ago, see : http://daggers.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/2583025185/m/6930093314 were I compared some of my German and Austrian helmets and a Vickers example. You will also find a picture of a square dip helmet on that page. It might...

Hi Chip Yes, I'm looking forward for the photographs too ! Johan

have a look at my website as well for different types of WW1 grenades: http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/utah/894/grenadecollection.htm Johan

To show an interesting and more difficult to find grenade, this is a French Bertrand gas grenade model 1915. Its shaped as a ball and composed out of smaller segments. The inside contained a glass ampoule containing teargas. This ampule broke on impact. The grenade was considered to be fairly...

If you buy a grenade, you obviously would like to have an inert grenade. Some grenades are emptied but not cleaned properly. Remains of the gun power will crystallize over time and this can be seen if small crystals inside the grenade body are present. The crystals itself, are inflammable when...

Sorry Tony, I had no idea !! I will mention that as well on the website !! Johan

Many thanks for the nice comments. Also, the website contains some additional info and corrections for Vol 1 and Vol2 which you might find usefull Johan

Hello All the link to the website of the book should be operational. Have a look at : http://www.germanuniformsandequipment.co.nr/ I hope you will enjoy it, Johan