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Happy New Year friends! Best wished for a happy, healthy, pickelhaube-filled 2026!

That's spectacular! Thanks so much for sharing these excellent pics. 👍

Agreed - hard to believe a prestige cavalry regiment like the GdC would tolerate such a sloppy "repair."

Merry Christmas friends, to you and yours!

What an astonishingly beautiful array of swords! Gorgeous and very unique pieces - thanks for sharing them. They truly don't make them like they used to,

That's a unique and awesome piece James! Very, very interesting.

These are some great tips! I'll add a few that I am aware of: "Sexy" or risque lithopanes are not period examples; Originals generally have a smooth handle, while many reproductions have a finger bump on the inside of the handle; and The hand-painted owner's name should always appear on the...

Congrats Gino - a fantastic helmet! Agree with Bruno re: the label inside. 👍

Awesome display Coert! Nice to be surrounded by them in your computer space. 😺

Beautiful painting Olaf - Theodor Rocholl was absolutely masterful.

I love the Steinach-Verlag books (didn't see them on your shelves) - beautifully executed, IMO. Some of my favorites are below. Die militärischen Kopfbedeckungen 1869–1919 mit Polizei, Feuerwehr und Steuerwache covers Württemberg headgear. Their two books on officer helmets are just...

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Outstanding - congrats! 👍 And I'm in the same boat as Bob.

I'll be curious to hear Tony's thoughts - he's the totenkopf guru (IR92 especially). I agree with Clovis that seeing the reverse of the TK and wappen would be ideal. To my eye, the wappen and TK seem oddly dark compared to the rest of the fittings - the Braunschweig kokarde might have been...

Oh that's a beauty Coert! 👍

Wow - if you don't mind sharing, what bank do you use Bruno? It's an in-person slow nightmare everywhere I've banked, some worse than others. Would love to just do it myself online.

Spectacular tunic Charles - and love the Chimay goblet! Gotta do it right.

Looking for 2-4 gilt stars for the the round officer spike base, with nuts - bonus if they include the zinc washer by some miracle. 😺

Holy cow Dave - those are just outstanding!

Super gorgeous helmet Bruno! I may be an outlier in that I prefer the clean lines and symmetry of the Strelitz version - and yours is just glorious in all respects.