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what a beautiful cap! congrats

although not yet 12 o clock they had this fireworks in the alps les trois vallees where we are having a skiing holiday, best wishes

Our better halves… hilarious and very accurate as a description

Nice! At the moment After buying a beautiful cavalry helmet I’m a bit low on budget, as I am a medical professional myself I would have been interested otherwise,

Tony, you are right, behind glass with illumination things look better, all my woolen mutzen and other uniforms are behind glass in showcases foremost to keep them save from moths and other insects, secondly but of less importance because they look smart that way

as this thread receives quite a lot of positive remarks, I would like to elaborate on some detaisl 1: this is the showcase on the first floor, a standard black metal cupboard custom remade with addition of glass shelf, removal of another metal shelf and addition of lights strips, (as will be...

yes leather parts are all original and intact

Both the kurass and the helmet were on my wishlist since I started collecting as a teenager, 54 years old now, so it took a while to achieve that goal, of course both items as Well as the palash are rare and much Desired items in our collectors community, this helmet is in my opinion the most...

dear fellow forum members, it has been calm on the collecting front because I'm involved in a building project so I am low on funds for the collection, but I recently bought a fine imperial prussian kurassier helmet to accompany my officer Kurass I already have the kurass for years...

regarding originality, I don't know, but combination of square visor and rounded chin scales would suggest cavalry officer, ec dragoon, but it does not have a dragoon wappen (plate), so combination seems odd to me

Of course this helmets are dream pieces for all of us, years ago I refrained from buying one from a very known dealer because of advice given by forum members, especially Adler ( Karel), they were right, it was not good… I think only a tiny percentage of these helmets are genuine, only buy one...

I agree, what beauties!!!

the titles in the photo's are very promising!!!

exactly, we all use arabic numerals all the time just because the islamic mathematicians were way ahead of the western world at the time, and they proved to be much more practical than the roman numerals I V X C M etc. western civilization adopted them 1000 years ago and they went global...

Part of my Württemberg ulan set is this stahlrohrlanze ( marked UR19, so not perfect with the rest) but difficult to find and even more difficult to ship, ( one of the forum members was so kind to send me a tip when I was looking for one at the time)

you asked for fieldgrey ulan uniforms, this is my UR20 ,

What a beautiful collection , both German and British/ Canadian pieces are wonderful, like especially the Scots!!

thank you very much for this link to the version of the green fields of france, it is beautiful!! brings back good memories! It has been one of my favorite songs since my childhood (being 54 years old now that has been a while) I've been interested in military history since I was a child, and...

Thank you for those updates! As I’m involved in a building project I am not bidding, but very much interested nonetheless!!

some more impressions