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Brilliant! :bravo:

Joe, my compliments! Your site offers a very generous lot of information, and once the contents of my wallet allow it I will buy at least two of your books! The preservation and presentation of info that otherwise may get lost is equally important as the preservation of Pickelhaubes. Chapeau...

Yoy have done a truly spectacular job! :bravo:

Nice piece! Congratulations!

In one word: WOW! :thumb up: :thumb up: :thumb up: As for your question about the black visors; many is the front visor I saw with a black inside - on helmets with fiber visors it's even very common, at least it was among the pieces in my long gone collections. The back visor... I wonder...

Have fun, guys (and gals)!

It wasn't me, James (grin)! Indeed, they have changed the description, and at least the first paragraph now fits the object. Further down the text they still state "The crown of this leather helmet displays a tall officers spike", which is clearly not the case - what's shown in the pics is the...

Every now and then I browse and encounter (to me) hitherto unknown websites about Pickelhauben. This time I found a vendor International Military Antiques (IMA) with several interesting offers like the one in the link. Unless I've completely lost it (my family will now immediately holler: "Yes...

John, my first impression is that this might very well be a good helmet that was treated badly. Maybe it spent a lot of time in f'rinstance a hot attic, which will have a far stronger influence on the outside (shellac etcetera) than on the inside. Doesn't look artificially aged to me - at least...

Yes I know, or rather knew, the virus. No use trying to fight it... resistance is futile!

I take my hat off to you, with a deep bow! About your question: I think you have already done so much impressive work to preserve this helmet for future generations, that I wouldn't stop now but go all the way. The liner could do with a bit of stabilizing indeed, and the next logical step is to...

All's well that ends well, Coert! A beautiful piece, congratulations! :thumb up:

I truly love these personal stories! They make a helmet speak!

Damn!

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I took the Wappen off and looked at the reverse. A more than decent galvano copy!

Intriguing, John! Was there a sufficiently large part of the newspaper to show a date, or possibly (part of) a war report or a headline, maybe along the lines of "Im Westen nichts Neues"? I find those (scraps of) old newspapers fascinating!

I'm sure he doesn't mind.

Couldn't place the Napolonic thing in the message. Try it again here:

Happens to all of us at least once I guess... and probably more than once because we won't always become aware. Somewhere in the late 1980's or early 1990's I bought something similar to the Prussian tschapka in the pic (not this actual one, but it's brother, sister or cousin). A few weeks...