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the story of put together opossum officer busbies is also familiar to me... heared that story before. There is al lot of fake stuff out there in militaria in general, but in officer busbies it seems even worse, Typical sealskin manschaften busbies seem quite recognizable as original or fake...

Yesterday there was an officer tschapka on the forum for review, the rabatten were clearly a no go, (crude made repro) and remarks on repro cchinscales were also clear, but the rest… I did not like it but difficult to say why, It is like beauty: difficult to define, but you immediately...

I think this helmet is original, like it, in my opinion no red flags, nice patina, and convincing markers

The boy in blue coat is my son, who is very military history interested like his dad

Today, it’s 80 years liberation commemoration of the town I live in the Netherlands, this private property tank is here too, so Yes in Holland you can own a tank

this is the story of the pensioner in Germany

Too bad that they were destroyed in a fire, a guy in Germany became frontpage news some years ago because he had an 88 mm FLAK and a Panthertank in his garage, I will look for the reference to share it

Wow, that is a cool find!, using metal detector?

I only bought a modest french officer kepi of the 93 regiment because that regiment fought near maissin, the town in the Belgian Ardennes where there is a beautiful cemetery of german and french soldiers fallen during the battle of the frontier in august 1914 (Nearby our holliday house)...

What a beautiful helmet!!!

What a beautiful uniform!!! Congratulations Sander!

very nice indeed

I’m in the Ardennes now, where I have a collection of figures of ww1 by Hachette, about 70 miniatures each was accompanied by a booklet with information on weapons and battles and uniforms , although not as detailed as those pictured above they are very nice and from all belingurent countries...

What a beautiful helmet, and a rare beast, thanks for sharing!

I also make miniatures of the WW1, I once bought a showcase at a flee market and constructed some minidiorama's in 1/32 scale to fill it.

the 115 Hessian Guard regiment was involved prior to the events in Verdun en bois de Caures in august 1914 in the battle of Maissin, part of the much bigger bataille des frontieres: and suffered huge casualties that day... The war cemetery in Maissin is beautiful, and mixed German and French...

at the moment I am in the Belgian Ardennes, (known for the battle of the bulge), but also place where the first Bataille des Ardennes was fought in august 1914, I frequently cycle to a war cemetery where both German and french soldiers are buried, (Maissin), at 30 km. I recently found out that...

And it has a very good provenance (!if you are sincere) and that helps a lot in these private purchase busbies

what a beauty!

good catch festwagner, otherwise I would have taken it. it nice and nicely marked originals don't show up every day,