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Good story Peter....we just never know where this stuff will turn up...

Wow, wonderful displays, thanks for sharing them...... :thumb up:

This little article will concern a recent acquisition of ours, a common soldiers Kochgeschirr, or cook-pot. The physical description for the left hand example is as follows; 210mm in height, 165mm in width and 110mm back to front. It has a removable top which is 55mm deep, with a riveted steel...

Very interesting, thanks for posting this Willi. The ability to quickly load and fire from a prone position with the breech loading Needle Gun was an enormous advantage over the muzzle loading weapons. If memory serves, to load and fire while prone armed with a muzzle loader, the soldier had to...

My apologies Michel, I didn’t address your original question, instead went off on a tangent as I too often do. I know of Johannes Floch, as I purchased some EK2’s from him at one of the early SOS Shows held at the Drawbridge Hotel in Kentucky, this was before the show moved to Louisville. After...

Hi Michel The book was published in 1982, and was the first major work in English since Colonel Rankin’s book “Helmets and Headress of the Imperial German Army 1870-1918” which was published in 1965. Pickelhauben is basically a pretty picture book, photographs are small and not much detail to...

Very, very nice Ron. Lot's of hard work and may I say money spent... :thumb up: Can you give some detail on the Christian Icon's and pottery items you have displayed with your hauben? They look really interesting too... Larmo

What a great find, a true scoop-deville :thumb up: First time I've seen a bugle with a Saxon crest...wow!

What a postscript to a great story and photo, good for you... Wow! :thumb up:

Wonderful items guys......great history Jupiter66, thanks for sharing that :thumb up:

Fantastic stuff Spiker, you are an artist...very clever =D>

Markgraf, many thanks for the additional photos…always a good thing to see and learn more. One more comment regarding this helmets markings, this time the 10C on the rear visor, likely the company number. If so, then third battalion. Somewhere on this forum is a wonderful postcard image of a...

Hey Francis, great minds think alike...er,ah, ah or something like that, or, we were both just so taken with the helm we were too excited to think clearly.. :D Ok, here's my quasi-intelligent guesstimation explanation of why the B is all out front and lonely. I believe this marking was...

Talk about too early Joe, my eyeballs about popped out of my head when I saw Markgraf's helmet. I had to edit my post three times before it sounded quasi-intelligent..and I'm still not so sure about that.. :-?

Markgraf, what a wonderful old helmet! :love10: :love10: IMO You don't need too much to put humpity-dumpity back together here, I'll look through my box of spares to see what I have available. IMO this is a really early helmet predating the 1860 model, a modified 1842 with changes to 1857...

Thanks Mhalik, I'm glad you found it informative....if anyone has other information to add regarding these cool old bayonets, please do so, there are many members on this forum, yet few respond to most of the posts in the different listings. All of us have an opinion or questions and we're all...

Many thanks guys for taking the time to comment, very much appreciated.. :thumb up: I was really happy to slip the 1865 Jaeger gun into the group photo. I've been on the hunt for one and a friend found one for me at a fair price and I received it just in time for this little write-up . This...

Greetings All and Happy New Year, the best of 2013 to each of you in the coming year… Initially this was going to be another snooze-fest write up by yours truly but this time concerning the 1865-71 Hirschfanger bayonet. However I came to find out that my photographic skills with shiny etched...

Thank you very much..

Excellent, a good presentation in fun =D> I believed it, they really are lovely little helmets aren't they?