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Hi, Congratulations, looks good to me, even though I'm no expert. Original shell with a lot of original colour remaining, 1917 steel ring liner with the correct cream-coloured chrome leather pads, held in place by the correct split pins (is the one at the back thicker than the other ones? hard...

Hi Coert, Fussartillerie is walking, so they have a vent. Regards, Lars EDIT: FAR means Feldartillerie 😀

Hi, Your intentions can be honest, but there are plenty out there who are not. An example of a fake I bought in the Somme region in France. I had my concerns about the originality due to the War Department arrow and the artisan grooves in the handle, but all the major and some of the minor...

In most of the photographic methods available at the time red appears much darker than blue.

That's quite a transformation. Scary to think that without the "before" pictures it would be hard to know just how much this piece has been messed with.

Hi, Welcome to the forum. Looks like a nice original "M16" Stahlhelm to me. Condition of the liner and the shell are similar, so probably never been tampered with / "improved" by a collector / dealer. The pins that hold the liner are correct, but the thicker pin should be at the back (so the...

The inside of the disk for the ball (visible on the picture of the inside of the helmet) seems to be painted grey, if that is true then I would think the whole helmet was grey at some point in time. However the paint looks nicely done, and painted grey metal also fits the grey / golden ball, so...

Did you manage to buy it? Regards, Lars

According to the 1903 Bekleidungsordnung § 40 B the Feldartillerie didn't have the vent, so imo the Feldartillerie-Regiment 22 marking fits the helmet type. The Feldartillerie typically marked with "FAR", and there was no Fußartillerie-regiment 22 in 1905 (nor in 1914) :) Regards, Lars

Wow, stunning, thank you for showing

And visible in the background a shiny new M18 cut-out helmet, not yet processed to look old. RED FLAG

In my eyes these look original, but what surprises me is the finish. With the voided crown I would say these are officer's Wappen, but the finish looks more like other ranks, painted rather than gilded. The process also seems more fitting for a Kammer item than a private purchase item. If the...

Good comparison :)

Truly a unique and wonderfull piece, Congratulations Dane!

Very nice to see such an old helmet with such a history 😀

Hi, I agree, but to me it doesn't seem to be stamped, rather that someone scratched the marking into the leather, compare the neat "107.R." stamp shown by Grabenmaxx to the stamp of the helmet in question. Hopefully I'm just seeing it wrong. Regards, Lars

Congratulations on a nice looking helmet, However imo the regimental marking are scratched-in rather than stamped, which I'm a bit suspicious of. Regards, Lars

Nice helmet Brian, Looking forward to the restauration. The B.A. stamp looks like B.A. VII. to me, possibly B.A. VIII., which explains the Prussian Wappen. I have seen B.A. VII. use such a yellow stamp before. Interesting to see the PB 3 stamp on a helmet from a different corps. Regards, Lars

Very nice, I really like battlefield finds. All that I managed to find on my short visit to Gallipoli while touring Turkey was a cartridge case in the trenches opposite Johnston's Jolly :) C A C 10 13 = Colonial Ammunition Co., (Melbourne, AUS, or Auckland, NZ), Oct. 1913 Regards, Lars

Congratulations Dane, What a wonderful grouping. You have letters / postcards, and pictures, and you can probably find his military records in the Bavarian archives online (not all records have survived), so you'll have the complete story. Regards, Lars