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Many thanks, Steve ! Wonderful helmets. I have been, of course, looking for a DR2 officer helmet, but no luck so far. Perhaps you should explain why the DR9 officer helmet above comes in both gold and silver color; some on the forum may not know the reason...

Here it is:

What an eye, Tony ! Yes, you are right, this is patinated Neusilber and not brass. DR15. The helmet is so genuine, intact, that I did not dare cleaning it at all. I did not even undo chinscales...

For me, the Dragoner spiked helmet remains THE Pickelhaube. It retains many marks of its filiation. While spiked helmets in most other arms evolved dramatically, the Dragoner version retained its squared visor, pearlring, cruciform spike basis, and visible retainers on the spine. Till the...

Brian, Didier Laine was a printer/editor, hence his privileged position to produce these illustrated books. He was also a talented drawer: all drawings in the book are by his own hand. It was difficult to surprise him; once I asked him what the next item on his shopping list was. He answered...

Not in Hessen.

Excellent helmet; a bona fide Hessen officer Pickelhaube, as inferred by Brian. Certainly not for an NCO.

I sure did, Steve. He was my mentor when I started collecting. Visiting him in his beautiful flat in the very center of Paris, next to "Hotel de Brienne", where the Ministry of War was located in WW1, was quite a treat (I have attached a picture of this building in August 1914, with the first...

Many thanks for this ! Will you add something on Tschapkas ? The Bavarian Tschapka is an endangered species. You hardly ever see it. Not a single post on Bavarian Tschapkas on this forum ever, unless I am mistaken...

Oh no, Steve. I purchased one. That's it.

I had missed this interesting discussion. Although I live in (West) Hollywood, I have never experienced any miracle find originating in the studios... But my sister is a movie stage designer in France (for those who might have heard of it, she designed the stage set of the movie that won the...

This is ridiculously expensive. I have two copies and I will only keep the one Didier dedicaced for me. If I can find the other one, you can have it.

Steve and others, I had missed this post. Fantastic. Feels like going window-shopping on Black Friday...

Beautiful, Ed ! The long spike and prominent Garde center are spectacular. Most likely a late production.

He cannot answer such a simple question?? You must buy the thing to find out what it is?... You should forget about it. M15s for sale are plentiful. Let's be clear though: this cannot be brass metal. Look at pictures of the interior. It's a regular M15 with gray steel metal fittings which, in my...

James, you are correct.... but only for the 3rd battalion. Battalions I and II of JR75 sported the white/red/white cockade.

Alan, On my screen, all fittings look definitively golden in colour.... except for the M91 posts. Inside, spike basis retaining brads, as well as the inside aspect of the spike basis are clearly pewter gray, as you wrote. Therefore, we have controls. I have never seen such a false colour on a...

No, it is not so standard ! It looks like the rare M15 variant with brass metal fittings (the vast majority came with gray steel fittings). However (and this is my impression), it may also be a regular M15 that has been painted in gold colour by a not so well-inspired amateur. If this is the...

I can't speak Dutch but I guess I understand your question. Still better if you could write in English, please... It might be a Prussian 1st Garde Dragoner officer helmet, to which a fluted (ill-fitting) spike has been added. This is not a spike for a general helmet though. See below for a real...

This is a very low estimate. 5000 to 8000 euro, for a nice example, is more realistic at the moment.