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I think this is a relevant and interesting thread, On one hand I think a lot of these objects are historically important and beautiful, but of cause that is subjective, Both my wife and a lot of friends don’t understand why I like those headgear. And yes it has elements of an addiction, I tend...

I love these kepies! A beautiful piece

Ciney is good Belgian Beer , maybe even great, but not a real Trappist… I prefer those, this week in our holiday home every evening a Rochefort…

I think chvauleger 7 was at regimentals near weitze, the stand where they sell the campaigns book series

Yesterday, the six months show was in Ciney, this edition was not very special regarding imperial German stuff, made some photos, did not buy anything significant ( deliberated on the IR 92 plate and French Kurassier Cap but as I am involved in s building project I did not), so some photos as...

I have always been interested in military history, and as a teenager made models of tanks airplanes etc. , then a neighbour said, if you are interested in that stuff, go visit that guy next door, he has the same interest, it turned out that the person was one of the leading Second World War...

You don’t stand a chance, Amy has got them all

I would like to be a bit more specific on the story I told above: I managed to find the "lot" in the auction of Hermann Historica in its book, it was an auction in 2014 see photo's. Being it a well known auction house in our field, This seems a good reference, but they also make mistakes. as...

I think some 15 years ago a large batch of these mutzen from leib garde husaren were discovered and sold by hermann historica as genuine newly discovered old stock, I got one of those myself but never trusted it , having it in hand it felt just to new so put it away in a box up to today, this...

the building

guns and tanks

in another thread yesterday and the days before the Brussels army museum was mentioned, as it has an incredible collection of imperial headgear I decided it merits its own tread, So yesterday returning from our holiday home in the Ardennes I mad a small detour to make some Photographs of the big...

that room stil exists, and it is fabulous!! it was even better 35 - 40 years plus ago, when around the room were more than 30 grabenpanzer with helmets lances and swords displayed, as decoration and the room was literally stuffed with old-fashioned showcases, full of uniforms, Then it was...

As we just left our holiday home I can’t right now, but will be back on Friday, will make a photo then

dear fellow collectors, as said before I own a holliday house near the front of august 1914, recently I encountered a Belgian individual interested in the first world war that found some relics on the battlefields of august 1914, (battle of the frontiers), the bloodiest day in french military...

The 20 second video seems to big of upload, found some photo's online, this monument shows names of 500.000+ soldiers killed and the immense scale helpt to feel what kind of amount of individual lives those numbers represent (as humans our brain cannot really understand numbers that big, this...

I did visit both musea very often, and understood that both collection belong to the same individual, it really is a shame that it is closed en for sale as I said before I think it is heartbreaking when outstanding public accessible collections get dispersed and inaccessible to the public...

Beautiful and strange combination, the M15 was introduced I thought after the parade rabatte was discarded , so very unusual combination, maybe put together? Anyway a paraderabatte is very hard to find, and a enormous plus to any tschapka!

Of course I also did not encounter such a metal shako before, but as everybody on this forum has the same reflex it might be one of a kind, maybe the company just made a testprobe and never really got into production phase? Anyway no doubt on its authenticity I think everyone one of us would...

Fantastic, I love tschapka’s, these are beautiful