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Piotr J, thank you for your decision to donate, to the forum, it is very much appreciated! I wish you all the best in 2026.

I was fortunate enough to meet and talk to Steve on several occasions at the SOS. I always looked forward to him showing us the treasures that he had bought at the Show. In addition, I was able to buy 3 rare wappen from him over the years which I still have in my collection. He was a major...

Hopefully you have also been told that I owned this piece for 40+ years and that it is shown on the forum "header". Enjoy!

Yet another helmet that I never knew existed.

Nice repro busby. Congratulations 👍

Looks excellent! it does not take a lot of effort in most cases to remove 100+ years of oxidization1 Well done Pete! 👍

I finished the stitching last week: Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, the calf skin sweat band split in 3 places while I was putting the spine back on. Fortunately I have some paper thin leather with me and was able to patch these up on the inside. In order to glue these in, I had to...

Congratulations to both seller and buyer, that is a fantastic piece of rare History !

Excellent! 👍

The eternal March of the Human Comedy!

Very nice indeed. Congratulations Pete!

No Dick , I don’t want to get into that. I will probably tighten up some of the original thread that holds the silk on to the sweatband but nothing more. It looks bad when pulled out for stitching but when folded back into place it will look as it was when you sent it to me. I just read my last...

Progress: I had some warmer temps and sunshine yesterday so The first pass along the stitch line is finished. Going back across is always easier although the stitching on this little fellow lined up perfectly. You always know that things are lined up when after pining, you can hold the piece up...

Someone has a bad case of haubitis here! 😊 Great photos! 👍

Very nice to see a high quality original wappen from JR 92. Congratulations!

As the administrator of this forum, I would like to thank Tony for finally clearly stating the obvious conclusion to this thread. Tony and the other senior collectors he cited have true originals in their collections. It is not easy to accept that one has been taken advantage of, but many of us...

A sunny day here again so work continues: We find a vulcan fibre rear visor here and no broken spaces between the holes. :) So we have a leather shell with V fibre visors, a good thing. For you novices, the black rim here tells us that it is vulcan fibre, an early form of plastic. The reverse...

My last winter project, this also needs the rear visor stitched back into position. The before photos: A very nice crisp Garde Officer wappen, with no dmage to the white enamel background. Flat scales for infantry service. The same problem as the last helmet. This presents a real problem! :(...

Finished: Completed yesterday. Now on to the next project sent by this member....a Garde Officer. I would also appreciate any comments about the chin scale fasteners. Has any member seen this type before? PS: The insect damage can not be seen with the visor back in place.

Enjoy it as I did for over 40 years!