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Thank you Charles! Blown away by your collection! thank you for showing it!

Dresden studio

Beautiful! Looks like you had a very successful February!

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Want to place a few images here

Nick when u do…pm me to see what your getting…there are what I believe are fakes out there….German eBay is pretty good place to start your hunt!

I can well relate to the “over-enthusiastic collector” syndrome…..i suffer from it as well. Those experts you mentioned were before my time…I am guessing they did much to advance the hobby that moved the Pickelhaube community passed Col Rankin‘s book back in the early 80’s when I bought by first...

Thank you both for your kind words! As I get to understand more of Marine activity in China, it lead me to what the other great powers were doing over there…so I have a tiny collection of Imperial forces in Asia images. Tony I have spent hours on your web site over the years admiring its wealth...

Tony here is the display I did at the SOS and at last years MAX….I changed them around every so often….next year I will want to do a Boxer display at one of the shows I attend

I had a table along the BW highlighting USMC history

A few more…..

And with some French Marines in Peking

And another East Asian Brigade image. This time a PPC instead of a cabinet or CDV photo

This one is on a post card

Thanks guys! Surprisingly, they turn up on American and German eBay with enough frequency that you should be able to pick some up over any given year. Sun helmets and Pickelhaubes portraits are the most in demand, epically if taken by Chinese photographers. You can also find them taken by...

A few portrait photos taken of German sailors while cruising Asiatic waters. Taken in photo studios in China and Japan. Both British and American sailors favored certain studios in Hong Kong and Shanghai….I have yet to study enough German asiatic portraits to know if Germans did likewise. One...

A few portrait photos taken of German sailors while cruising Asiatic waters. Taken in photo studios in China and Japan. Both British and American sailors favored certain studios in Hong Kong and Shanghai….I have yet to study enough German asiatic portraits to know if Germans did likewise. Note...

Prefect!!! Thank you,,

Thank you Sandy for the excellent full translation! It’s nice to bring this mans military service back to life again!

This oversize cabinet card taken in China, shows a young infantryman of the East Asian 2nd Infantry Regiment. I am guessing he is wearing the 1900 field gray winter tunic jacket with stand down collar. He also had chosen to rest his grey felt covered pickelhaube on a studio prop table, that also...