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Love these photos of the manufacturing. Spike is on before the visors. Do the helmets in the back ground have Überzug on them?

I believe that late in the war (WWI) the French switched to a brown color. Also some of the colonial troops wore brown.

Nice collection

Great job, it has also was puzzled me as to how to restitch the visor on one of these. I've actually have passed up a couple of Tschapkas because of loose front visors. We talked about the Star before, it does appear there are far more with out one than with. Here's mine.

Hope he does bid against any of us on eBay.

Looks hand done to me.

I assume that the holes were originally laid out using some type of template. That alined the four pin holes correctly to the center vent hole. The tec. who laid these out may or may alined it correctly to the front center line. Also remember that leather shrinkage may move the alignment slightly.

As a kid I had a model of 10.5 cm field gun, I believe it was made by Märklin or Elastolin. To load the piece you removed a breech block and filled a small cup with powder, placed a paper cap on the back of the block , and a BB into the breech. Replace the breech block and pull a string, this...

Of my sample, 25% of those inspected were not marked. The marking is located on either upper tag (one that goes under the spike base) or the lower tag (the that folds under the rear visor). this upper one is not visible without removing spike. Never gave any thought to the number referring to...

I've been trying to match spine lengths to helmet size for a while now. I still don't have enough data to make any 100% positive conclusion. Many of the spines are marked with a size (I've encountered 1 to 7 so far). Although I'm beginning to think that these size markings may vary from maker to...

Too often German = Nazi, even some of the so called history programs of TV will use the two terms interchangeably.

Nice fine

Helmets, straps, and belt buckles main interest

From the limited examples I've measured, the hole spacing for Saxon and Bavarian Wappen are generally the same.

Talk about Sci-Fi, last night I saw a report on the news about 3D printed food.

good luck,

Very nice, Thanks for posting the pennant. I have a couple, but not that one.

One of the things I look for on scales, is the buckle used. Reproduction straps usually have a buckle that is much larger than the originals. A missing buckle (to me) is a give away that the strap is a replacement. Here is one of my enlisted helmets with scales (AR70)

Not sure if I'm correct but... When I look at a cover I try to determine how the color was achieved. It seems to me that the original were made with cloth that was woven using individually dyed threads. While the majority of the fakes are made with cloth that was dyed as a sheet. This gives the...

Steve, I can put it here. My father was friends with Col. Jarrett and as a kid I would go with my Dad to visit the Museum and see Col. J.. Col. Jarrett, on one of visits told me about the hat.He said that he (Col.J.) visited with the Crown Prince and was given the hat. It was great fun...