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Doug: I have the same feeling. Should never have sold this 109th OR's Uberzug. Especially now that I have a 109th helmet.

Dane: Nice to see you employing your collection as a teaching tool. It certainly makes your collecting more meaningful than just a personal acquisition of "stuff". Some kids learn best by seeing and touching things, and they would have enjoyed this as much as you did. I'm a fairly regular...

Here's a veterans Franco-Prussian War medal with the Battle Bar.

James: And here I was celebrating the fact that I finally managed to score one. Although it came from Tony's collection so its not just any old 109. :)

Impressive items James. I've never seen one "in the flesh". Thanks for posting.

Same here. Never seen one or heard of the existence of these. Never seen one where the emblem was mounted using nuts and bolts. But...I'm prepared to be educated.

Ahhh...yes. It didn't occur to me that someone would replace the threaded Kugel with a threaded Spitze.

Could it be 1st Royal Saxon Train Battalion Nr.12 stationed at Dresden? I believe they had brass fittings and wore a black parade bush hence the removable spike. Nice helmet. Especially nice to have the original Saxon Kokarden.

Chuck: Nice to see you on the forum. Super looking example and excellent photos.

That's the "Poster Child" for why they implemented a dress regulation restricting the height of spikes. Nice looking helmet though.

I certainly miss Steve. In fact, I was thinking about him just yesterday as I was looking over some of my Kaiser Prizes. He obviously had a collection that most of us could never eclipse but never gave a hint of operating on a higher level. He was always asking questions and seeking to...

Thanks for commenting. I was wondering who was giving the cup to whom. I assume that the vendors in the garrison towns would have more ready access to this sort of gift for sale to reservists away from home. I like the fact that the cup was very well used over the years. Not just placed on...

Here’s a cup I’ve had for years which has me wondering. I think this is a coffee cup given by a father (Jakob Pies) to his son Mathias? I translate the script beneath the name “Jakob? Pies” as: “Remembering my beloved son Mathias serving with the 2nd Company of the 2nd Upper Rhine Infantry...

Being born in 1955 I grew up surrounded by veterans. Starting school in 1961 my school crossing guard was a WW1 veteran. In those days a crossing guard was invariably an elderly vet who wore a navy-blue military uniform with visor cap. I recall his tunic having some ribbons on it but they meant...

A beautiful piece and must be quite rare. FWIW I would consider that the Neusilber fittings link it to some technical branch. Telegraph troops would be a logical conclusion.

Peter: No need to apologize for the intro to Artillery ranging. I find it quite interesting. In fact, I have somewhere around here a log book that belonged to a gunner in the early days of WW2. I think he was Canadian. It introduced me to the intricacies of long range artillery work taking...

I just purchased this pair of Imperial Army binoculars made by Carl Zeiss at an estate sale in Ottawa. Based on the serial number and the materials used it’s most likely these were produced around mid-1915. This is a D.f. model in the very popular 6 X 30 version. The optics are really...

The "Handbook of the German Army in War edition of April 1918" states that The Kingdom of Prussia and her allied or subordinate states composed 78% of the Imperial Army. Bavaria 11%, Saxony 7% and Wurttemburg 4%. Some of those subordinate to Prussia units wore a Wapppen distinctly different...

As threatened. I took a couple of pictures of my inkwell. It looks like I got the Faux Saxon version.

That's a nice helmet and a good example of an area of Imperial helmet collecting limited to the USA I believe. British and Commonwealth troops were not permitted to mail souvenirs home. That's not to say that some of them didn't make their way back to Canada. by various non official routes...