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That was my opinion, thank you!

Good morning gentlemen, A friend of mine recently picked up a very nice M16 helmet and had asked me about the authenticity of the chinstrap, I am leaning towards it being new leather sewn to period brass hardware, I could be wring because the leather does have some cracking where the chinstrap...

Is it possible that its not military? I cant find many examples of tunics that are black.

Does anyone have any ideas on this one?

I guess i hadn't considered that, my original idea was to try and find a bar that had some combination of a merit medal, life saving medal, Centennial medal, lower length service award.

I have a question for some of the GDC and medal bar enthusiasts of the forum, I am trying to hunt down a proper 3/4 place bar for this uniform and is am assuming that as a member of the GDC would not have been sent over to the colonial theatre and would not be eligible for the China campaign...

Here is a photo of the lining, I dont think i did a terrible job at the restitching it once I had the boards in place. Right shoulder: Left shoulder:

I unfortunately did not take any photos while I was in the process of sewing them in but once I removed the remnants of the old shoulder boards I carefully cut one section of the thread that was holding the lining in place and unthreaded it so I could rethread it back in and exposed the inner...

This is the finished product.

One down, one to go, I dont think it looks half bad so far and I was even able to salvage some of the original liner thread when restitching the liner back into the shoulder.

I have finally decided to jump into replacing these, while removing the remnants of the old shoulder boards I see they are constructed differently, they do not have a blue backing like the ones I was able to source and the original boards were also wider than these.

It's good to see you on the forum! Do you know if the bicorn is still in the shop?

Very nice!

You are correct the spike does not seat but that is also because from the looks of it the shank of the spike mount is slightly bent so thats no help either.

These are the threads of the spike itself.

A tap and die set is a tool set that you use to cut a new set of threads into material or to clean up damaged/ worn threads on hardware, you use it on anything from nuts and bolts to threaded inserts, my main concern would be the thread pattern of 100+ year old hardware vs. Newer hardware if...

Has anyone had any luck with using a tap and dye set to repair damaged threads on helmets before?

Unfortunately just about any explanation for the strange configuration is completely theoretical, all the parts of the helmet to include the chinscale mounts are absolutely tight to the helmet

Also if the scroll had disappeared 100 years ago the shell would have tarnished evenly without it, you do however have a point with the spike base stars. Unless this is potentially a OYV helmet.

It does however seem to match the pre 1897 style of fittings which was worn by JR115, and reading through the kaisers bunker JR115 had attempted to chemically whiten their fittings which evidently did not work and heavily tarnished them which could also explain why these fittings are in the...