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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...

Dear friends, can anyone recommend a good book on the Prussian uniforms of the Napoleonic wars (Wars of Liberation)? Thank you in advance.

Dear fellow forum members, I'm pleased to show you my latest acquisition for my collection, a helmet eagle M1842 with attached fatherland bandeau from 1860. Special about it is the attachment of the banner. Instead of soldering it to the eagle, split pins were soldered to the back of the banner...

Dear Friends, today I‘d like to show you my latest acquisition for my collection. It’s a beautiful M1895 helmet for enlisted men in a really wonderful condition. Although these helmets aren’t rare, you don’t see it in such condition every day. It is fully stamped in accordance to the...

Dear fellow collectors, since we have just seen in the other post that there are still some different opinions on this subject, I would like to collect original sources on this topic to clarify whether the rule to put on the chinscales for parades and service in the garrison also valid in...

Dear friends, today I’d like to share my new Blog entry on my homepage Historien-Kabinett.net. I hope it will be interesting for some people, because it is a translation of the Royal Prussian Clothing Department's inspection instructions for pickelhauben, shakos and helmet covers. For me it was...

Dear fellow forum members, I wonder when the members of the 2nd battery of the field artillery regiment no. 26 were allowed to wear the COLBERG 1807 banner on their helmets? One source wrote 1899, but I couldn’t find an AKO in the Armee-Verordnungsblatt and additionally the clothing regulation...

It seems I was a good boy last year, because Santa Claus brought me all 3 volumes of "Die feldgraue Uniformierung des deutschen Heeres 1907-1918". This completes the collection of books from Militaria-Verlag that I find interesting 🎁🤩🎁 Thank you Santa 🎅

Dear friends, I'm looking for 2 nice photos, one of the front and one of the back, of a Prussian enlisted man's emblem of a chapka M1895. According to the Prussian clothing regulations the chapka eagles should be reinforced with a wire at the claws. I only own a Bavarian officer's chapka and...

Dear friends, I would like to hear your thoughts on an officer's cuirassier helmet for sale on eBay: https://www.ebay.de/itm/395047951645?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=707-53477-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050 I would say it’s a reproduction, because if the following reasons: the...

Dear fellow collectors, today I‘d like to share my little collection of vending machine tin boxes. The small boxes were produced by Hartwig & Vogel on different aristocratic occasions and were filled with candies or pastilles. I tried to research the times when the shown photos were taken and I...

Hello all, what do you think about the stamps of this helmet M1867? The year 1869 is good readable, but what about the stamp under the year, could it mean “OIR91“? Are there Oldenburg helmets with an “O“ for „Oldenburgisches“ before the “IR“? Thank you in advance for any opinion...

Dear fellow collectors, does anyone have photos of the first pickelhauben modell from Saxony-Meiningen? If I'm right, it was released in 1853, but I haven't seen such a helmet yet. Any help is appreciated.

Dear fellow collectors, I have updated my website and published a new article about the differences between the Prussian line eagles of the various models of pickelhauben. Hope it may help some of the new collectors to familiarize themselves with this topic. If anyone notices an error, please...

Hello together, I found this chinstrap on ebay and wonder if it is original or fake...

Dear fellow collectors, I‘m very happy to present you my latest find, which I'm very proud about. It is a beautiful helmet M1842 of a Landwehr officer in an excellent and untouched condition. It has no double holes, all the squared bow nuts plus washers are present and there is even a paper...

Dear fellow collectors, I‘m looking for enlisted men helmet eagles M1842/43 and M1860. If you have one of these for sale or do you know where I could buy one of these not overly expensive I would be happy if you could mail me. Thank you!

Dear fellow collectors, I‘m currently working on a next Blog entry for my website about the Prussian helmet eagle plates from 1842 to 1918. In this search I came across different helmet eagle variations of the M1842/43 and I wonder if there are more of them? I have already found the following...

Dear fellow collector friends, I'm happy to present you my latest find, a helmet M1891. This rare enlisted man's helmet for a Prussian infantryman I have already acquired a few months ago, but unfortunately it came with a fake chinstrap and it took me some time to find the necessary original...

Dear friends, it’s been some time since I published a new entry on my website, but there's a lot going on in my private life, which is why I needed a little break. However, I’m happy to present you my latest article on my website now. It’s about the history and origin of the imperial eagle from...