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Another of my obsessions are the hussars. As you can deduce from my avatar, I loved them at first sight. Leib Garde Husaren Regiment.

Dear Tony, it is fine for me.

And now the uniform with the typical plumed bersaglieri hat, the so-called "vaira".

M 1879 Bersaglieri Officer Uniform.

Great news, happy news.

For cavalry enthusiasts, here is a dragoon officer's helmet from the period of King Victor Emmanuel. Do you like it?

It's the time for something from italian royal navy.

Super find. I like it a lot. Congratulations Amy.

Fantastic and terrific waffenrock Steve. Congrats.

The italian war era M1915 soft kepi was realized in grey-green heavy wool. The shape is about the same of the old headgear. The officer rank's stripes are in grey cotton thread and the artillery badge is of black cotton thread to ensure low visibility All this characteristics, in my opinion...

Have you noted the all the three ersatzmetalhlem showed here are stamped 8 J.P.? No other regiment???

And now I want to analize in details the headgears. The embroidery gold metallic thread is composed of two crossed cannons and two crossed rifle (only fortress artillery) with above a flaming grenade. The number 9 indicate the 9th regiment and the two stripes indicate the rank of 1th leutnant...

Thank you my friends. I add some further photos of the M1903 uniform. I like it a lot.

Wow Amy, the family grows.

As I promised the M1903 campaign uniform esemble (the same of the photo I posted) of 1th lieutnant Italo Tinazzi.

And this one is in my ersatz collection.

Nice photos which show the impressed 8th J.P. marks.

Congrats Steve. Well done as usual. It's a rare ersatz. These ersatz models comes all correctly with small/regular cocades.

And this is not all. By doing some research I was able to put together Italo's short but intense life. Italo Tinazzi was born on 11.30.1898 in Poiano di Valpantena, a small village near Verona in the north of Italy. At the outbreak of the war he attended the first year of the Engineering...

You are right Amy. I agree with you. The oldest models are a target for advanced collectors and with good financial capacity. They are mainly in great and old collection. In the next future I think they'll increase in demand and offer.