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Many thanks to you all for your appreciation! "A picture is worth a thousand words", as they say.

This picture illustrates these differences between Hessian officer helmets: Left: infantry or train: curved chinscales, round-headed studs Right: cavalry (Dragoner): curved chinscales, round-headed studs Center: infantry regiment 115: flat chinscales, stars What was the rule in other states...

No, you are not. All Hessian infantry spike helmets sported curved chinscales (except for JR115). Therefore. Hessen officer helmets for infantry and train are identical.

I don't own a Santa outfit either, and I had to cheat to make the picture... Is Pickelhaubes.com becoming a new chapter of the Kawasaki Owners Club?

Happy Holidays to all!

This answers my question. The hidden helmet on the left of your picture is tagged "Casque mitrailleur de montagne" (helmet for a mountain machine-gunner), hence it must be the example presented by Larcade. La Pompelle does have two of these helmets...

Was there more than one example at La Pompelle? I can't remember. The one from La Pompelle pictured in Larcade's book is marked to a Mountain Machine Gun Detachment:

Really amazing, an incredible find, since similar helmets encountered nowadays always scream "fake". Why is there no number on the metal plate? Was it a general purpose helmet, on which a regiment number was painted or engraved as needed? Your example may have been unissued.

Sure, Philippe, but without FB, of course. A GFR helmet would not bear a FB stamp, since all Bs were Fs.

They all had a Fusilier Bataillon, the 3rd one.

Coert, I know the seller, who knows spike helmets very well... he did not describe it as Bavarian; it is just a keyword added by mistake. No, this is neither an Eisenbahn nor a Pioneer helmet!... Look at markings carefully...

Yes he did, as well as one on the A7V German tank.

Less know is the superb - and wonderfully illustrated - book he published on Sturmtruppen. He dedicaced one for me.

Jean-Louis Larcade was such a nice, sweet man. He bore a heavy load: he lost his young daughter to illness; she was in her early twenties, if I remember correctly. The first one of his books is dedicated to her (p 5).

Beautiful helmet.

Never saw one.... And I think the only Mecklenburg M15 I have seen for sale in years had the wrong Prussian spike.

I already told the story, Ed, but I will repeat it for relevance to this thread. That bloke in San Francisco (not a collector) had two M15s for sale. This Mecklenburg-Schwerin and a rotten Bavarian. I was, of course, only coveting the former one. Problem: spikes had been switched between the two...

Yes indeed, Ed. Lovely series of yours. We could just add the Perlring variant for the M15 Dragoner helmet.

Here it is (you meant Mecklenburg, right ?). I agree, this is a great assortment !

Yes, Steve, and since this AKO came very late (September 1915), gilt helmets converted to silver are seldom seen, as you wrote. It is good you could show the DR9 example.