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There was a general uniform for generals and there were special regimental uniforms for generals.

Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm, the later Friedrich III.

This epaulette is not for Gardes du Corps. This is for the uniform of a general. The material of the field is different.

The uniform in the link was to see in the old exibition of the German Historic Museum in Berlin. This is not the uniform of Kaiser Wilhelm.

No and no. Silver half moon, not gold. Silver field, not white. Black cuirass and yellow cuirass. No star on the field. Two stars before he became Feldmarschall and then two battons, crossed with W for his grandfather. Same Epaulettes for Gardes du Corps and for the 1.Garde-Regiment zu Fuss.

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behind the drum

But there was also something to read in 2025.

Chatellerault and Klingenthal did not produce cuirasses for the 1st French Empire. Chatellerault only produced the later model with fewer rivets around the edge.

No, those two halves were never a pair. The scale chains of the 1814 cuirasses are much shorter than those of the 1845 model. It doesn't fit. You can see that here, too. Prussia captured enough cuirasses in France in 1814 to supply all its regiments. By 1815, when the Battle of Waterloo took...

The right time to look back on the year. It was probably the year of the Gardes du Corps.

Yes, Wilhelm Jaeger. The "II" is the size. FW stands for King Friedrich-Wilhelm IV.

Beitzen 1911/1918 5.Eskadron und Leib-Eskadron

Verwaltungsdirektor Hermann Schumann, Gütersloh Unter den Ulmen 4 I have seen his name in a list from 1940 He died 12.August 1967

Merry Christmas, my present arrived just in time!

I would say it's a beautiful assembly of parts that never belonged together. Booty? The last French king died in 1850.

Reichswehr and Wehrmacht are blackened and have only one loop.

My purchase, Theodor Rocholl a famous battle painter. I also bid on three uniforms, without success.

Yes, so it is.

I received these two today, unfortunately not a pair.