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Great job Wojtek. Thank you for sharing this restoration (y)

Me too, thank you for sharing these great photos of these beautiful helmet eagles. Simply stunning 🤩

Awesome collection Amy. Once again, congratulations 🤩 🤩 🤩

In my experience, you can recognize the cast helmet eagles from the front at the base of the wings. There is always more or less a small gap between the body and the first flight feather, whereas in the pressed helmet eagle M1842 the unnecessary material remains there. Reworking these small gaps...

Great piece of history, congratulations on this beautiful watch 👍

That's too much honor John 🫥, I just try to keep up with you all. This forum is a wonderful source of information about pickelhauben and other uniform items and I'm constantly learning here too. But thanks anyway, I really appreciate your compliment 😇

What a beautiful helmet 🤩 Congratulations, Amy! I love the hidden bolts of the eagle attachment in feather design. The left one is a piece of art 👍

Unlike what is perhaps assumed today because of the crimes in World War II, the German Empire was a society that was open to foreigners. Global trade had always been strong in Germany and, as the link of an advertisement from 1886 shows, buffalo hair was also imported from the USA...

As Thierry wrote, until 1897 there was only one cockade on the helmet. Only the small states, whose army was integrated into the Prussian army following the signing of the military agreement in the 1860s, wore two cockades on their helmets (the Prussian cockade and the state cockade of the small...

Really a beautiful helmet, congratulations :)

I look forward to seeing how you will repair it, my friend (y)

Beautiful Tunic Steve, congratulations on this find :)

Looks great, congratulations on your new helmet 🤩

Thank you for your nice comment Mr. Bean and thank you Steve for your helmet photos. @Charles: Unfortunately I don‘t have enough makers information to answer your question.

Dear forum members, unfortunately, I had to revise my article and have removed most of the last section with the sword mix-up. Unfortunately, I was guilty of a mix-up myself, as the TU Architecture Museum, which was the image source for the Electoral sword and the Margrave sword, gave incorrect...

Thank you very much for your kind comments, I‘m really glad that you like it. Also thank you for your informative additions, Thierry and Jens.

Dear fellow forum members, I'm glad to present you my latest article "A summary of the history of the Prussian helmet eagles" on my website "Historien-Kabinett.net". As the name indicates, it's an overview about the meaning and history of the different Pickelhauben eagles. Unfortunately, the...

Congratulations on this find :)

Congratulations to this wonderful Miter. Thank you for sharing :)

Beautiful busbies, thank you for sharing :)