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today when I visited the ageofkings website I saw they sold this beauty must have gone quickly because I check that website regularly and did not see it for sale named with all attributes , most of all the parade rabatte, does anyone know what the price was?

dear fellow collectors, M1867 Tschapka Garde EM (and line regiment variant I already had) today I picked this one up , brought from a show after purchase to me by a collector friend, It is a M1867 prussian Tschapka , thus before the unification of germany into the kaiserreich by Bischmarck...

today I visited (with my 11 years old son), MILITRACKS the biggest event with functioning german WW2 vehicles and tanks in the world, (in the war museum of overlook that has a enormous collection of vehicles themselves, but the vehicles driving around are from collectors like Keep them...

although this is pickelhaubes as a website as stated before I do also collect other WW1 items and nations. as I really like the enormous variety in nations, types, colors and designs I don't stick to german headgear alone. Yesterday I received this glengarry hat of an officer of the KOSB , I...

in the last Christmas holliday I visited the " musee de la grande guerre" in Meaux, near Paris, location of the battles of the marne in 1914 and 1918. It is listed as the biggest WW1 museum in Europe, and it is very much worthwhile visiting. It has a beautiful collection (with a fantastic...

the second book a german price guide from 1978 about Pickelhaubes, really small reference book probably small dimension to stow away in your pockets to have it by hand when visiting a militaria fair Prices in Deutsche Mark 1979 (I was born in 1971 and started collecting headgear when a...

When rearranging the books in my library I found these two books full of Pickelhaubes from the seventies: first the collection from te royal army museum in Brussels, a book in the three official languages from Belgium (Dutch French en german), with Photo's an explications for each helmet most in...

This book, by Brian Calkins published in 1990 was one of my first reference books, bought more than 30 years a ago when I was stil a student, and started collecting. Having evolved in collecting over the last 35 years, this book is now to limited in its information, it lacks details, but I...

at the moment I am in the Belgian Ardennes, (known for the battle of the bulge), but also place where the first Bataille des Ardennes was fought in august 1914, I frequently cycle to a war cemetery where both German and french soldiers are buried, (Maissin), at 30 km. I recently found out that...

dear fellow forum members, I always visit the big military fair in Ciney, but as my family decided to a holiday in Italy this week I was for the first time in over a decade not in the possibility to visit this great show, to ease the pain in my heart in a local flee market today in Northern...

my latest find is a modest one, during the first world war the Netherlands remained neutral, as I'm collecting all countries engaged in the conflict I did not collect non combattant countries like Switzerland Sweden and the netherlands, Last years I did not own any Dutch headgear ( I did own...

My latest find is not very valuable one, but interesting nevertheless It's an officers Trunk named to E Burckard medical Lieutenant it is made of wood covered with linen and painted green with metal reinforcement to the edges en metal rings to secure it when stacked away, leather belts...

My latest find is a series of 5 drawings that I got for my birthday from my three Daughters. It consists of a series of drawings made by a french soldier during the war. I like them very much, (got them few months ago, but put them in frames today). As I'm collecting militaria, foremost...

today was the fair in Ciney, I did not buy anything, but I would like to share a few pics of items that were there

recently I acquiered this Sachsen Well marked UR17 EM tschapka, it was very affordable, maybe because nobody liked the chin scales that are obviously much too long. It is marked 17U.. 1896, (witch is correct for Sachsen) being it dated 1896 I think it should have Knopf91 instead of the older...

today I received something I bought some weeks ago, It is a book with 24 prints of scetches (" croquis") made by a French war artist during the great war, " in the English lines", printed and disributed by the French War office during the war. the book is printed and signed in a limited...

My latest find is a "rare beast" as it was called by another forum member in earlier post. It is the pickelhaube of a reserve officer of the second battalion of the (96 th regiment) Reuss the wappen was only attributed to one battalion thus very scarce, it is surprising that this helmet was...

last Year my militaria project was this Set of Ulanen Regiment 20 (Wurrtenberg). A couple of years ago (2016) I purchased the Tschapka (well marked with kammerstempel) In 2021 I found the correct Feldzeichen (on Ebay), see earlier post. In feb 2022 I purchased the Ulanka with leather Cavalry...

some years ago I bought this Austrian WW1 helmet shell with a decal, and an ornament on the other side. (no liner) It looks old, but might be a fake, anyway it looks beautiful and convincing to me, (it wasn't expensive, and I like it a lot, whether it's original or not, so going to keep it...

last weekend in Ciney (Belgium) I found my latest find: a 7th uhlan Tschapka, (and a sword fo the 20th UR to accompany my well marked UR 20 ulanka and tschapka I already possessed). for a preview see under show news, hope to show more pictures of the sword and " convolute" in a few days)...