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I had the same problem. At first I thought about a plastic spiked helmet. But they are made for carnival and for modern heads, and are too big for an old Überzug. Now I have bought a cheap spiked helmet, without an eagle, lining, etc., just with spike. It fits perfectly and doesn't cost a...

Fire men.

My favorite this years. Gardes du Corps, gift from the russian tsar to the regiment in 1814.

Very nice. Congratiolation. The Rang is General der Infanterie. Only one possible, Herzog Carl Eduard von Sachsen Coburg Gotha.

Nice photo. Hard to find anything from this regiment.

Could be one of these.

It is a Rittmeister, not a Hauptmann.

Looks like a copy from Poland, Spikehelmets.

Sergio Semino sold a pair of his Garde Kürassier Epaulettes some years ago.

I think Großherzog Friedrich Franz IV. von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He was a la Suite of the Garde Kürassier Regiment.

and the third wears not a prussian uniform.

Are the shoulder boards longer than the shoulders?

Only the husar on the right is "a la suite" of a Regiment.

Here the right Uniform for a General of the foot guards. Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Hindenburg.

Generals of the foot guard regiments had 8 buttonholes and not 12. Only the special uniform for generals had 12. The cuffs here are the wrong shape. They were not so pointed.

I don't like the uniform. A mix of general's uniform and regimental uniform. The shoulder boards are for a general's uniform. The blue fabric on the collar is a different shade than the rest. Perhaps the collar and cuffs have been swapped.

his fieldgrey visor cap https://www.hermann-historica.de/en/auctions/lot/id/271163

Villa Liegnitz, Potsdam Sanssouci

The question remains why a helmet produced in 1915 does not have the button 94 introduced in 1894 and a groove at the back of the head, abolished in 1889.