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dear Pickelhaube community, I visited Ypres today again , but alas, alle musea were closed, but could of course visit a lot of graveyards and monuments Being in the flanders fields museum shop at the tourist info I saw again the files on first world war headgear published by the museum in small...

What a beautiful schirmmutze, I have seen them before but never with that beautiful bright blue verstoss, looks like reused cavalry mutze, my example has dark blue verstoss and red piping as is logic for sanitary service as far as I know, ( artz offizier also that combination), but to be...

Sorry for the confusion, by giving tumps up I just like to show that I like any post on the 92 regiment, not a statement that I think it is good, as I don’t know enough about these specific helmets ( we all want them, but I don’t, have one), so I don’t know

I do like the 1867 model with bigger mortar board very much and they are much harder to find as they served in the francoprussian war it is another era, but indeed less sought after,I’m happy to own both models. if have one in less then perfect condition, but look at the details in the wappen ...

It might be due to te resolution of the photo,s but I don’t like that wappen, it misses fine details

I really miss a photo of the complete helmet, and more detailed pictures of the wappen would be nice, but I also think this is a authentic Tschapka, and the fact it has the Fangschnur parade plume and parade rabatte is very nice! It is extremely cheap

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...