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Hello guys! How are you? Its been a long long time since i was here! Been busy raising Sean and doing parenting and all. Sean is 8 years old now by the way, how time flies! And it took me some time to remember my password and was pleasantly surprise that I am still able to log in. Glad to be...

Hi guys, I am puzzled by this pic, the guys are wearing various kinds of haubes, tscapkas, busbies etc. And the card was said to read" Lost and Found Booty 2nd floor"? These guys are germans, right? Was there such unit swhich task was to recover lost, scattered and stolen headgears...

Hi guys, There is this Hannoverian Kurassier metalhelme, but I had browsed through some books and couldnt find any reference of the existence of a hannoverian Kurassier Rgt. The helmet appears to be theolder version (1867 and before, I guess). Could it be that there WAS a Hannoverian Kurassier...

Hi guys, Is thos Baden good? It looks very neat, liner all intact. What do you think? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&item=180023398916&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 Thanks BB

Hi guys, What does the 'ga' or is it '9a' mark means? I do know that the stamped 29 R means Prussian 29th Rgt. Btw, these marks came from a wappenless M15 haube, which due to the presence of the 29R, i would presume that its the Prussian 29th Rgt. Thanks BB

Hi guys, It seems that there are more Saxon reserve haubes compared to the other states. I dont see much of other states' reserve haubes, but there are a number of Saxon reserve haubes around. Tony has it, Joe has it, and the one Randy is selling is also a Saxon reserve haube...

Hi gang, I stumbled upon this: http://www.derrittmeister.com/productpages/04460.htm asking price? Its $ 17.0000. Now, abt the MINENWERFER KOMPAGNIE, I only read abt their wherebeing on Stubbs' book, and he only mentioned it in the passing, there are no pics of the unit's haubes are depicted...

Hi guys, Need help on this Baden officer haube, the seller assures me that it has no extra holes, the kokarden look repro, I think the helmet is a wartime pvt purchase one. What do you think? Should I go for it? Sorry for the many pics. Thanks Bambang

Hi guys, I cant really determine what wappen are those soldiers wearing? A saxon? But they appear to be too big and massive for a Saxon wappen. What are those actually...

Hi guys, I though I understand abt the so called NCO kokarde, but when I read some references again, I ended up confused. Is there such thing as the NCO kokarde? Some says that NCOs used a 'single ring' kokarde, but there are many 'NCO' haubes that has an EM kokarde, frankly speaking, I dont...

Hi gang, Why the 2 different JR marks on this haube? One is a JR 22 and another is JR 23, since EM haube is govt property, is it common to have a haube from a Rgt 'transfered' to another Rgt, hence the 2 different JR marks...

Hi gang, I have been wondering abt those late war ersatz haube, there are some variants of the ersatz that have black pre war leather for front and rear visor and some use brass trimmings instead of the subdued coloured trimmings. Were those kind of haubes appeared as they were (leather front...

Hi guys, I was reading the March 27, 2006 edition of Newsweek, there is an article abt ebay, the title is; Swimming With Sharks: With more people buying goods on online autcion sites, crooks are getting even more aggresive. It was abt someone name Chung who bid for a Patek Phillipe for $...

Hi guys, There is a bavarian arty helmet with kugel, wasnt bavaria the last kingdom/state to adopt the ball top spike? Then this bavarian arty should be after 1915, which was a wartime arty spike then...

Hi gang! I am a father now, a very proud father of Sean Nicholas Alexander Angkawijaya, yes, he has a loooooong name :D Sean was born on 28th Feb 2006 at 0838 hrs. A very happy and proud father 8) :D Bambang

Hi guys, Is this a good "schewin"? http://cgi.ebay.com/Pickelhaube-Spike-Helmet-Casque-Helmet-Germany_W0QQitemZ6605874024QQcategoryZ13965QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Cheers, Bambang

Hi guys, I was reading Jan K Kube's book "A study of German Helmets & Uniforms 1729-1918" and on page 208, there are 2 pics of the "Historisches Militar-Museum, Koblenz" and it was stated as ca 1938, then on page 213, 3 pics of the personnla collection of Bonsack Collection, 1939. What happened...

HI guys, I am puzzled by this M15 metalhelme, from the spike, spike base, the visor etc, its obvious that its a M15 kurassier, but why the dark colour? I thought M15 kurassier helmets are more or less shinny polished metal, whereas the M15 JzP is of a dark/blue coloured...

Hi gang, Crimson has this tscapka for sale, is it good? And what abt the price? http://www.cmmilitaryantiques.com/gallery.php?arid=980 Thanks Bambang

Hi guys, I hope I post this question in the correct thread. I noticed that all the sovereign of the 19th and early 20th century, including the Kaiser and Tsar Nicholas II were always dressed as girls when they were very young. Is there any reason for doing that? And did the commoners did...