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Good idea tim_be... I guess I'll try that first since the frock is not very dirty. But a better idea is to let my spouse do it! : «Darling, I'm not very good at that!» :lol:

Hi, The center of the front plate looks weird to me, seems some holes were patched?? Any comments? MariO

Hi, I don't know if the subject appeared here but I would like to know if some of you had a bad experience for having a unifom dry cleaned. I have had a french artillery coat done without damage.... any recommendations? Mario

Hi all! this seller you might know (I think Brian told me about him) Ageofkings1 has interesting uniforms and helmets for sale on eBay. 170070466952 MariO

Hi, Question is, how come no one bid on this one? Too expensive or some doctor fixed something??? 180060126994 Mario

Thanks for your comments and specially to Tony for the reference. I guess I'll try to do my research first before asking a more specific question. :oops: Mario

:x OK YOU SMART PROS, nice fast responses but have you ever consider that some of us would want to LEARN? In this example, maybe some of us would like to know WHY its a fake? I think this forum is great but should not degerenate in an inside exchange for only 4 or 5 initiates... And dont...

I would like to get one of these. Since this guy often tries to flip repros I'm not sure about this one. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6604513236 Any clues?

sorry, here it is: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6602739415

I'm no expert, but this one looks a repro to me, what da ya think?

Spikey, my office is in Montreal!!! Do you have this collectophile address? I need books on sabres....

Well thanks to you James ! Great sword for my collection... Mario

:oops: forgot the link, : http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13965&item=6587365060

Found that closed bid Any clue? German priest perhaps? :eek:

This guy has always awesome items. He must have collected for years. I bought some prussian swords from him and the french helmet on my avatar....

I finally received the helmet, looks ok to me. The liner is good and there are no markings. The only problem is that the small eagle star plate on the wappen is apart. The fixation on the wappen is there but someone tried to solder the star and evidently didn't work... Is there a pic somewhere...

What do you think of this one: 6597358897 Cockardes and chinstrap not included....

Hi Paul, If you want some advice on the framing part I could help you. Framing is my hobby for some years now and I use the manual french framing method. So if you could email some pics I could possibly help. Mario

Trough that item 6596413287, take a look at that guy's helmet collection :o

Hi to all. I know I should have consulted the board before buying but I had no time. So this the helmet I picked up, described as: PRUSSIAN GUARDS PICKELHAUBE AND POSSIBLY BELONGED TO EITHER THE 2nd OR 3rd BATTALIONS What year model is it? (don't laugh in the back please ! ;-) Comments...