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A needle in a haystack, and look who found it? Congratulations Bruno :thumb up: :thumb up: :thumb up: !

What a beautiful piece and an equally beautiful memory! I love it when such a rather unique situation existst: the preserved Pickelhaube of an actual ancestor! I hope you'll find out a lot of additional information!

"(...) Scout 17 tells me the new spike screwed on perfectly (...)" That's a surprising example of good luck! The result of restoration and new spike is truly spectacular :thumb up:

Thanks Brian!

Brian, would you by any chance still have the photo's after the Photobucket debacle? A very interesting post! I've always wondered what the stages were in applying the shellac layer, and how long it took. Seems to have been a complicated and time consuming process!

What a spectacular Wappen! :thumb up: :thumb up: :thumb up:

Both are beautiful, Coert! :thumb up:

:thumb up: Looking good, Karel

I see! I was wondering about the connection between the spike base and the helmet - this explains it (grin)!

It works, Reg! G'donyah, mate! A question though. If the helmet in the photograph hadn't some crimp in the "Vorderschirm" I'd think "Geez, is that a good quality replica?" With the exception of the Vorderschiene the brass (aluminiumbronze?) looks so inredibly perfect that it would be ready for...

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Maschinen Gewehr Kompanie, Sandy? I dunno - it's the only thing I can come up with.

Hi Randolpho! A major problem with tracing patronyms from the Ostfriesland area is that there are/were so many bearers of those names. Now take myself: one of my great-great-grandfathers was a sea captain by the name of Friedrich Martin Carsjens, born in the first half of the 1800's in Emden...

"Tiessens" is a fairly common name in the northeast of the Netherlands and the adjoining northwest of Germany - like the area in and around Emden. It's a patronym, from the man's name Ties. So as a name inside a helmet or in this case on a dagger scabbard "Tiessens" is a very good possibility.

Ah... memories! The first Pickelhaube I ever saw for sale was when I was 13 or 14, way back in I think 1959. A Prussian Mannschaft (after nearly 60 years I still see it in front of my eyes!), in the window of an antiques and curiosities shop in The Hague. Price: 5 guilders. The equivalent in US...

Good stuff, Coert!

Them spikes are looking damn good - that's all.

Well begun is half done! Pretty good start!

Good stuff! Beautiful!

Hi Coert, good acquisition! I agree with you when it comes to not polishing. It is very easy to polish away a century of patina, but if the results are disappointing you can never put it back! Believe me: during my "first collection" in the 1980's I noticed a couple of times that my so-called...