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Extremely nice. I would love to own one of these one day myself! Unfortunately though, my "retirement helmet" ended up being a new upstairs deck on my house in SoCal. Congrats on both your retirement and a stunning cavalry helmet for a retiring Cavalry Officer. You earned it! S/F Bryan.

And Jupiter66, That is a super nice helmet with a very rare plate. I wish you could have scored on that. Bryan.

The "kit" helmet cockade shown below also fits extremely close to the sides of the crown of the helmet.

Hi Brian. Cockades are proprietary and unique to this fairly rare type of helmet. They are convex embossed away from the base of the M91 post and have a very close fitting hole around the shaft of the post with a "pie" slot cut out of the edge of the center to allow the corresponding flange...

So, as I mentioned on an earlier post, I purchased some helmets from the collection of a very old but now deceased family friend. One of the helmets was the one in the photos attached, but it had a General Officer's feathered trichter cobbled onto it for some reason. The gentleman who had...

Thanks for the replies so far. And James; thank you for reaching out via the personal message. So in my original post, I said that the spike base nuts were some kind of "craft split brads", instead of saying "split brad paper fasteners", so I mis-spoke. That is what they are. I got a little...

Is this a pioneers helmet? Any idea what regiment? Flat gilt chinscales with silver colored rondels securing the chinscales to the helmet through the cockades. Nickel silver fittings throughout otherwise. Star bolts to secure spike base are missing and the former owner stuck some "craft"...

That is a beautiful helmet. I don't think you overpaid. A friend of mine paid more for one just like that but his was only half as nice. I look forward to seeing your restoration. Bryan.

Thanks Tony. As you know, I don't really collect officer's helmets normally, but this opportunity to pick up several is spurring a little research on my end. After I posted this, I started scrolling the internet, and I found Colonel J's excellent site. It seems it could very well be 100%...

Hi, I purchased this helmet (and a bunch of others) the other day from the estate of an old family friend. I normally collect enlisted helmets only, but there were several officers helmets there, so I went ahead and took the plunge... The wappen appears to be for an enlisted reservist. When...

That is a truly amazing job you did. I assume you used a buffing wheel externally after dealing with the exterior rust? Great work!

Good Lord, that will be a really nice felt when you are done.

Definitely a lot nicer than it started.

Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.

I agree with sandman. The first thing I noticed was the visor trim. It looks too long to my eye. I have one of these in both brass and silver fittings. My brass one is a mounted artillery and the silver is a chevalier helmet. If the visor was not replaced and had a new old stock visor...

Wow, James! What a fantastic helmet. And a stunning cockade. You are fortunate to have located that!

Mine has a size stamp on the little leather pocket (53), and the maker mark is up inside the crown in white. The maker mark stamp was not applied really well and is a little smeared so I am not sure where it was made. Perhaps someone has a more readable stamp of this maker. 11th Hussar Regiment...

Hey Brian, how have you been? I was thinking about you the other day while I was rebuilding some Prussian cuirass straps. Kind of tapping into my "inner Loree" while I puzzled out the most accurate way to rebuild them. Yeah, I know the wappen is an officer version and not correct. Someone stuck...

The Bavarian helmet was stamped out with more of a round front visor. The Wurt has the front visor stamped in more of a square shape.

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