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Wonderful! Keeping every one of these excellent photos.

Very nice. That is a two piece casting (top and bottom), with the Bandeau added after 1860.

Here is an a Preussen sand-casted Adler adopted in 1842. This is the type of Adler with the large head and Schwarzenegger arms. This helmet eagle has been sand-cast so it lacks cut and file marks on the edges. The muted detail is not even close to the later die-stamped eagles.This Adler has...

8.JzP wore a gilt eagle on black Metalhelm with Tombak fittings including chinscales. The Dragoner eagle wasn’t Tombak. More Please excuse the shameless plug but I am looking for a JzP with silver fittings.

Easier Alan? Like it’s easier to find a unicorn than a flying pig? 🤣 Any chance of a new thread to show your GdC?

It was still worth looking wasn’t it? Just be lucky it didn’t have a stamp MADE IN INDIA But you would know that by this point. Again congratulations Steve on a rather difficult fur hat to find.

Tonight’s bed reading! That is a lot of research brought together to make it understandable. Well done Sandy

Wonderful helmet Amy.

Not just me. It’s all of us here. I learn something every day.

That is COOL! Way to go Peter. An actual 1500s Cabasset. What’s it like as an historian/author to hold a 500+ year old helmet?

Very nice helmet. I have had a few Garde Adler where the Garde star seem to be brass. Possibly a slightly lower amount of tin in the mix? Inside it looks brass, outside like Neusilber. So yes you could replace it, but it could be the original that has aged and the brass is predominant? I let...

2 LHR Nr.2 is a Traumstück. Fantastic!

Jeff I have a similar officer helmet with no hole.

Pleeeease don’t back away. We cannot afford to lose your knowledge. You and so many others who are all members here. This little Forum is pulling in more and Imperial collectors from around the world, as we are (reasonably) polite and as said, free. But not free for Brian. Many years he...

Hi Alex. Very nice helmet and Überzug. Well done. Perhaps some one on our Forum has an untouched M1915 spike to sell you. That shouldn’t be difficult to find. The Überzug is just the perfect condition; worn but not trashed.

We can’t keep up with this James. Hopefully Joel will see this and what we actually need is the ability to delete and ban as Moderators with one button. Not nine. By the time we do that another Spam machine has shown up. Thanks everybody who puts a reply in this thread but I assure you that we...

Otto that is the near-mint Pelzmtüze I obtained from you. You drove it up to NB on a visit. Special delivery. Wonderful example once Cypher and bits were added. As you said no missing hair. Thank you very much again for that.

How cool is that to see the strips of hide! All these years later and there is the animal’s skin. Look at all the effort to make one. So many stitches by hand.

Kenny you could sell those here. Many members here could use several. Copies are discouraged, perhaps to make it fair for collectors in future years, a tiny stamp perhaps to identify them as copies? Like a tiny K or something?