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The small holes in the leather sweatband are very typical for postwar manufacturing ( I was told some years ago), the leather sweatband and cellophane is here an easy giveaway for it being non WW1, but sometimes you see the same fine holes in the leather sweatband in feldgrau mutzen that look...

If it still is available I will buy it for 600€ ex shipping to The Netherlands

Sold for 1900 euros ( plus fees)

No good

This is an interesting view on the subject, As said an officer dragoon style guard Prussian helmet with cruciform base and rectangular visor is either general of first guards dragoon regiment Victoria , Because everyone wants a general a lot of those dragoon guards officers are said to be...

Very nice helmet! The JzP are the most beautiful Prussian helmets in my opinion

I visited the museum 5 years ago, the First World War section is fantastic

I would you advise not to polish the brass helmet, it has a beautiful patina, a lot of us consider it a shame to polish metal helmets by removing the patina, for the horse hair: maybe use a bit of steam (for instance such a small steamer for clothes)

Yes very nearby, visited that graveyard often

I just activated the link and applied to become a member of that group, thank you for the suggestion

I would like to own that item, this happened in the battle of the ardennes (la bataillon des frontiers), in the first month of the war, a very bloody episode of the war, two days before was the deadliest day for the French army (27.000 french soldiers killed on 22 august 1914) , all very near...

The lance looks quite convincing, but, I agree with steve on the pennant, and for the lance itself: I looked it up in two reference works: die feldgraue Uniformierung (Kraus) and the german cavalry (verlag militaria, in both there is no mention of a two parts lance, If I was the owner of...

Do you show a wappen or a tschapka? A real beauty that wappen

You called the post newM18 helmet, indeed a very nice more than a century OLD helmet, It’s like the new church in Amsterdam dating from something like the seventeenth century …

Thanks for the photos, !!!!

First impression, looks good, (even looks great) the bigger sized buckle is said to point at repro, but I'm not sure about that, (curious what others think about that) and I'm not sure about the feldzeichen,(seems somewhat big in comparison to the busby) I think the fangschnur is good, But the...

What a beautiful cavalry helmet, I do understand you could not resist!!!, what does ECO stand for? Ears cut out?

Brian, I like the " smiley" variant of the KUK Kappenröschen very much, it is brilliant!

That is also still on my wish list! Congrats, it is a beauty!

Dear Brian, very nice and indeed hard to find headgear! Like them very much.