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I picked this up for a reasonable price about a month ago. The liner is partially messed up and it has has a couple of splits in the shell repaired... But, my first ever first rolled rim felt! Fittings have a very thin nickel wash over the brass that has mostly worn away on the M91 side posts...

Hi, I found this today at a local antique store around the corner for a very reasonable price. This is exactly how I found this. My first thought was that someone had just stuck an artillery top onto a standard M1915, until I saw the Artillery markings on the leather rear neck guard. Then i...

A young collector friend of mine recently picked up this shoulder board. The number has a faint pink/rose colored Regimental number. He has heard that there were units that used a lighter, rose colored number instead of the normal poppy red color normally seen. I told him that I thought the...

Hello, I was digging through my parts box and came across a couple of spare spikes I picked up years ago. I figured I would ask the forum to help me properly identify them. I think the one in brass might be a Saxon officer spike? Perhaps for a General Officer? Not sure. The silver one missing...

I posted over a month ago about working with a pal of mine to re-shape and repair the metal of a bent and dented tin tschapka. Today, I'm posting about the liner. As seen in the photos, the liner is in bad shape. Red rot has creeped into the rolled edge, and bits of the liner are missing...

Does anyone know a good resource for quality replica feldzeichen? Primarily Prussian. I saw a site called Prussian Glory. Are their feldzeichen good replicas? Thank you. Bryan.

A true Gentleman contacted me via PM awhile back after reading my posting on Wotjak's thread about his restoration of a tin ersatz Ulanen tschapka. He offered me an identical one at a very fair price, but it required some repair. In the photo below, you can see the finished results. The...

I'm sure more than one member here has had this problem in the past. A perfectly good wappen with one or both of the loops broken off... I posted this little ersatz tin Wurtemburg pickelhaube with an officer's wappen incorrectly attached. I obtained an enlisted wappen, but the previous owner...

Hi, I acquired this tiny silver uhlan tschapka recently from an old collection. I asked James LeBrassuer about it and what his thoughts were, and he recommended that I post it here. It is made of silver and has three tiny European hallmarks and a number "800" which I assume to show it's silver...

If the other members don't mind, I would like to put this out there. I think it is kind of a fun subject! Having been stationed as a Marine on the West Coast for most of my life, Hollywood and the film industry had a very minor but sometimes obvious influence on my daily life. It certainly...

I picked this Bavarian EM's felt ersatz recently, and figured I would post it. Overall, the helmet seems to be in very good condition. I have noticed over the years that the color of the felt on the Bavarian felt ersatz helmets usually seems to have more of a brownish shade, whereas the...

So, as I mentioned on an earlier post, I purchased some helmets from the collection of a very old but now deceased family friend. One of the helmets was the one in the photos attached, but it had a General Officer's feathered trichter cobbled onto it for some reason. The gentleman who had...

Is this a pioneers helmet? Any idea what regiment? Flat gilt chinscales with silver colored rondels securing the chinscales to the helmet through the cockades. Nickel silver fittings throughout otherwise. Star bolts to secure spike base are missing and the former owner stuck some "craft"...

Hi, I purchased this helmet (and a bunch of others) the other day from the estate of an old family friend. I normally collect enlisted helmets only, but there were several officers helmets there, so I went ahead and took the plunge... The wappen appears to be for an enlisted reservist. When...

It has been quite a while since I have posted on this site. I have seen these types of ersatz tin helmets over rhe years. They appear similar to the one-piece stamped out helmets that are normally green painted, but seem to be stamped out differently by a different maker. Does anyone on the...

Happy 244th Marine Corps Birthday to all former and currently serving U.S. Marines. Semper Fi and God Bless.

M1915 by C.E. Junker with large cuirassier style eagle M1915 by C.E. Junker with smaller Line style eagle/wappen M1915 by Damaschke with smaller Line style wappen M1915 made by Lachman with small Line wappen Pulling helmets from boxes in prep for our move at the end of the month. Was...

Hey Pete, I picked up this helmet today pretty cheap at the local flea market. I have seen these around for many years and have been told they are Spanish Franco period cavalry helmets. Looks like a Franco period crown on the plate. Is this correct? Did these use plumes of some type? Any...

Brian/Joe, Have you gentlemen considered turning the ersatz filz/felt thread into a thread that covers all variations of ersatz helmets? It looks like there are only two topics in this filz thread at this time. I ask because this is a topic that really stirs my interests. There are so many...

Hey Gents, I have an earlier model Enlisted Man's Prussian Cuirassier helmet. It looks like it was originally an older "step-visor" type helmet that was modified to the newer type (1890's) visor while in service. It still has the screws holding on the chinstrap. I know the Cuirassier...