Search results

Ok... hmmm... seems to be some variance then. This one looks like its possibly trimmed down from an M1850 tall helmet but the plate is the M1850. The first two you sent look like two different heights as well so theoretically there are both fluted and plain spikes in use. Maybe a regimental...

Thank you! The artillery helmet is in the Ratstatt book that Herbert turned us on to. I'll look on line as well.

Impressive pieces. They also have the standard perlring for an enlisted man. Very interesting! Here are examples of early Baden helmets with plain spikes I have in my files. One seems to be "parts" helmet so not sure if it is correct. The other is a member's helmet discussed elsewhere here...

According to Larcade, Baden introduced a Prussian style helmet with the squared visor and a spike in 1850. Has anyone seen a photo or know if this spike was plain or whether it was fluted for the ordinary ranks infantry helmet? Every photo of this Baden helmet I have seen is an officer helmet...

Is this it? 1840's Uhlan. You're lucky to have that.

Very nice!

It is the 'Bridgerton" version of Napoleon's life and I think that's what Scott wanted - to make a commercial success considering that he's actually an expert on all this stuff. Bridgerton is a PBS fantasy series very loosely inspired by the Jane Austen genre of this same period. The...

In regard to double holes, Holstein had its own plate - a star that may have been replaced with the unified emblem of the two states. I wouldn't worry about a missing claw. These helmets were worn in some serious campaigning. The reason they survived is that they were collected up to be...

The tailoring and detailing for the uniforms is amazing considering they are reproductions.

Thank you, I love these helmets and keep a picture file on them even though I don't collect them. So I presume like the Garde du Corps, these Saxon units were also posted into the field. Do we know where they were stationed during the war?

The 1840 shako that preceded this helmet just turned up on Ebay. It looks as though the shako plate was added directly to the helmet when it was adopted...

Thank you for the information. This is a very interesting helmet then. Members had information about their front line deployment on earlier posts here. I had asked a few months ago about these units being actually deployed (I thought they were ceremonial units or for civil disorder - they...

I'm very interested to hear about history and contemporary Germany. But this is going on all over the world. Its a fashionable trend. But the notion of purging educational curricula of major historical events that may not reflect the ideals or goals of a contemporary society is an extremely...

I'm not up on the development of the Bundeswehr since reunification. I wonder if the honor guard photos you posted with plumed helmets imply that today's army is beginning to link specific regiments back to 19th century antecedents as other countries do.

Germany puts a lot of thought into how to handle its military heritage. That honor guard appearance is interesting. Germany has always tended to emphasize the 1813 Wars of Liberation as a founding tradition that heralded a period of remarkable achievements in arts, architecture, natural...

Interesting - black gold and red cockade - Belgian?

Thanks! I didn't have this shipping price trouble with a kokarde and a Hamburg plate I purchased from him years ago so that bothers me. I'll just have to think about how to approach him.

Does the e-mail suggest he is going out of business and therefore he is open to offers?

Weitze was offering one of the seamless helmets last year.

I have read that the model was introduced in 1846 but I don't know what these dates are based on. Jan K. Kube offered one in an auction earlier this year. https://www.kube-auktionen.de/auktion144/index.php