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I have a couple of Doughboy helmets and Mutzes for sale. Wurt Off wartime with 1 moth nip and half of the silk liner is in tatters otherwise cherry. No longer available

The helmet is OK but has a Liberty tag and tons of paperwork with it. If I did not have 2 already I would try to jump on this one ...

Hey guys, Before I started collecting pickelhaubes I was slightly into Nazi Daggers. I had an Army, Airforce , Red Cross hewer and an SA dagger. I sold all in order to start financing my pickelhaube collection. I have gotten the bug again and am starting back with an Army dagger purchased from...

Hey Guys, I am looking for a vented brass rear spine that is on the long side. I need one that is 17.5 cm to 18 cm or 6 3/4 inches I got lucky here when I needed a grey metal one hopefully I will get luck again. I look every day on the US, France and German eBay's ! Anybody have one in this...

Hey Guys, Overnight I got this email from the German Militaria dealer "Militaria on Line " and I think it says that it is going out of business. Has anybody else got this notification or am I reading the email wrong ? http://www.militaria-online.de/ http://www.militaria-online.de/

Hey Guys, As stated before I got my shells back from Brian about 6 months ago and I finally got the chance to clean and put them back together I took a few pics. My work area The first helmet to be assembled Work progressing.

Hey Guys, I am looking for a field badge for a EM Bavarian felt shako I picked up a while ago. I would love an original but a repo would do. Does that Polish company still make them or have they closed down ? Thanks for any leads, Matthew

Hey Guys, I have a Bavarian felt shako heading my way. It has about a 3" tear on the top front of the helmet in the field badge area. There is no evidence that a field badge was ever in that location just a tear. Was there a time when they stopped using the field badge and switched to the double...

Hey Guys, I picked up a felt shako and it is missing the front plate. It has no markings on it but has a brass salt and pepper black painted vents with silver 91 posts. Actually the vent holes are magnetic but the rear starburst attachments are brass. I have a smaller silver shako Wurttemberg...

Hey Guys , Does anybody have any original Bavarian cocardes that they are willing to part with ? At this time I need 3 of them. Thanks Matthew

Hey Guys I just got this in and with a little help this will turn out to be a great felt. I purchase it from AOK and it has grey furniture and is well marked. When I got it in I soon realized that the furniture is actually painted brass. It is original to the era and the paint shows age cracking...

Hey Guys, I am looking for a Badem EM cocarde to fit over a 91 post. Anybody out there have one they are will to let go ? Thanks.

Hey Guys, I am working on a couple of felts now and one helmet's parts were rusty. So here is a quick and easy way of painting the parts so as not to make then look monochromatic. To those who might be interested.. Paints used : Light gray Dark gray Field green I got the first 2 paints from my...

Happy Mardis Gras Here is Ninja just getting back from one of the parades . The Queen of Carnival. I am actually working on some of helmets today.

I need a few of those square nuts that secure the bottom visor bill wrap around . Anybody have some laying around looking for a home ?

Hey Guys, As stated before in Chris's post I have taken possession of his felt. I contacted several hatters here in New Orleans , everyone turned me down do to it's age. So I will give it a go. I got a wooden form off of eBay for a start and purchased a hand held steamer as well. Here are...

Hey Guys, I am looking for this book. There is one on France's ebay but they want $70 to ship ! Dose anyone know were one is for sale ?

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I saw this on the German eBay and it looks good. But I thought I read somewhere that these were fantasy helmets. Comments to clarify are welcome. https://www.ebay.de/itm/195373714721?hash=item2d7d2e4d21:g:Tw8AAOSw5ydjMI6v

Hey Guys, I got this felt off of ebay a little while back and just started to work on it. The ebay listing said it had brass fittings on it. When I got it in I was a little bummed to find out that the posts were brass but the fittings were steel. I decided to keep it anyway. The felt was VERY...