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as promised today I photographed my ulanka and cap, but alas, too late to profit from natural daylight, so in artificial light... also will add photo's of tschapka's EM and officer (see difference in plates, the EM plate is regular prussian officer with bandeaus soldered to it whereas the...

what a beautiful uniform and Tschapka, I a very fond of cavalry headgear and Tschapka and klanka's specifically, so like Charles said above, I looked at those uniforms a few times! (like many here especially the fieldgrey variant catches my attention, but the dunkelblau one is also a beauty)...

What a beautiful helmet, congratulations on your project!!

the second book a german price guide from 1978 about Pickelhaubes, really small reference book probably small dimension to stow away in your pockets to have it by hand when visiting a militaria fair Prices in Deutsche Mark 1979 (I was born in 1971 and started collecting headgear when a...

When rearranging the books in my library I found these two books full of Pickelhaubes from the seventies: first the collection from te royal army museum in Brussels, a book in the three official languages from Belgium (Dutch French en german), with Photo's an explications for each helmet most in...

Got them both of course… Think they are there or in our holiday home

Thanks but most reference books are in another library on the landing first floor, you will recognise a lot of the titles a they are favourites among forum members

Being a pickel collector for 35 years, that is the most heard reaction, but since I constructed a showcase in our living room reactions tend to be somewhat nicer, but then again most people don’t even see it when they come to our house the first time

Sorry to hear, wish you all

This book, by Brian Calkins published in 1990 was one of my first reference books, bought more than 30 years a ago when I was stil a student, and started collecting. Having evolved in collecting over the last 35 years, this book is now to limited in its information, it lacks details, but I...

by the way, it is not soldered to the Kurrass, I think the cross is pinned through the kurrass, see these photo's of the inside (I can't check it, as it is on an model-torso), but looking closely at it from the outside it is not soldered

I have one on a kurras

Curious, both on the mysterious item and the bidding process, keep us posted

the story of put together opossum officer busbies is also familiar to me... heared that story before. There is al lot of fake stuff out there in militaria in general, but in officer busbies it seems even worse, Typical sealskin manschaften busbies seem quite recognizable as original or fake...

Yesterday there was an officer tschapka on the forum for review, the rabatten were clearly a no go, (crude made repro) and remarks on repro cchinscales were also clear, but the rest… I did not like it but difficult to say why, It is like beauty: difficult to define, but you immediately...

I think this helmet is original, like it, in my opinion no red flags, nice patina, and convincing markers

The boy in blue coat is my son, who is very military history interested like his dad

Today, it’s 80 years liberation commemoration of the town I live in the Netherlands, this private property tank is here too, so Yes in Holland you can own a tank

this is the story of the pensioner in Germany