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Hi Mike, You and I are thinking along similar lines but I do hope some of the others chime in. Regarding NCO, I got severely reprimanded by some of the village worthies for misuse of the term NCO in favour of Unteroffiziere mit Portepee, which I find a bit cumbersome. The two terms are not...

Hi Mike, I think that's my question, yes. Wouldn't a GA wear officer's cockades? Cheers, Laurie

Before the purists get all in a twist about my use of the term NCO's - Mia Culpa! You know what I mean, anyway. In another thread we found ourselves looking at one of Joe's excellent helmets - the General Adjutant's helmet. There is one quirk about it that I don't quite understand: The...

Well, I won't be bidding this one and I suspect that it will be a relative bargain by the time the dust clears. Thank you for your commentary, which pretty much confirmed my thoughts. Good luck to someone out there. Cheers, Laurie

Hi Gus, Great suggestion. Many thanks. Cheers, Laurie

I know nothing about these older helmets, this one looks like a gem, though: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6262412372 Looking forward to your comments. Cheers, Laurie

Greetings, All! In the old forum we had quite a discussion about the many thread sizes that original helmet manufacturers used. Though there was some standardization, there were so many makers that a huge number of variations in thread size and style developed for spikes and trichters. Given...

G'day All! I haven't made myself a target in at least a week - about time I dodged a bit of flak: In another thread we had talk of plugging unwanted holes in 'haubes: I have been experimenting and "developed" (not quite the right word but it will do - no such thing as a new idea) a technique...

It amazes me how this guy keeps popping up because, at least theoretically, eBay has enough information on the person who opens an account to trace him - a "hard" email address (not hotmail or whatever) and a credit card number. It would seem that little or no effort is being put into tracking...

Mike, A bargain at half the price! Cheers, Laurie

Thank you, Tony. I sort of figured it had to be an oxidation process. Lacquer on metal would just be too delicate to be practical. Say hello to Kaiser for me. Cheers, Laurie

Oi! You lot! Gossiping like a bunch of old biddies! What about my question? Cheers, Laurie

Hi R1, Thanks for the hint. I tried them but even the reprint is out of print. One for the 'Want List.' Cheers, Laurie

Rather than lacquered, weren't these helmets oxide-blackened or was that just the EM's helmets? Cheers, Laurie

Heiko came through with a set of photos of the wappen and the helmet area behind the wappen: Oh how I wish I could chase this helmet! I don't think it has ever been outside its Helmkoffer. This one is a real museum piece. There you go guys. Cheers, Laurie

R1, Are reprints of the Junker catalogue still available? If so, where would I get one? Thanks, Laurie

What all of this is telling us is, even ten years from now, today's prices will look cheap. So, if you see something good out there and have the cash, don't blink or someone smarter than you will buy it out from under you. A point to note is we're talking WW1's centennary so there will very...

"Survivor" - I think it's the chicks in the skimpy outfits. Joe, I'd go for paperback. Face it, hundred year-old military supplers' catalogues are pretty esoteric stuff, appealing to a fairly narrow audience (this pack of odd-balls - sorry, Gus, I wasn't singling you out). If the price wasn't...

Thank you timp_be, you have made a most interesting contribution. Something which makes very good sense but I would never have thought of. "sens du poil" is very close to the English expression: the "grain of the fur," or the"lie of the fur." Cheers, Laurie

Hi Joe, Just caught your note on the Muller and Neumann catalogue. Please put me down for a copy. I side with you on the captions issue. As I slip more and more into geezerdom, I find the mental exercise of reading in German is healthy stuff. That, and I'm a bit of a purist, I'd rather see...