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  1. Jaap Verduijn

    2019

    At the beginning of 2019 I have only one wish for all of you: May the worst day in your new year be better than the best day in the old one!
  2. Jaap Verduijn

    Going, but not gone yet (grin)!

    Greetings all! I've been kind of AWOL for some time, due to the rather imbecilic fact that I went far too late to see a doctor with a range of complaints that for too many years I'd ignored in a careless manner. Result: what must have started already years ago as a simple and easily repairable...
  3. Jaap Verduijn

    DRP?

    Greetings all! I recently encountered, somewhere in a Facebook group, a Pickelhaube cover stamped "DRP". The DR would probably be Dragoner Regiment, but what could the P stand for?
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    Disproportional amount of "Jansens"

    A silly question, that for some reason popped up in my silly mind. In the days of my large Pickelhauben collection in the 1980's/early 1990's, I had a disproportionally large number of helmets made/stamped by Julius Jansen in Strassbourg. If I remember correctly, one or possibly even two (!) out...
  5. Jaap Verduijn

    M1871 sold as M1895

    Every now and then I browse and encounter (to me) hitherto unknown websites about Pickelhauben. This time I found a vendor International Military Antiques (IMA) with several interesting offers like the one in the link. Unless I've completely lost it (my family will now immediately holler: "Yes...
  6. Jaap Verduijn

    Not mine, but I may display it

    Not my property, but I may guard and display it.
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    The colours! The colours!

    Creativity has no boundaries :D https://www.ebay.com/itm/Christmas-Presents-Prussian-Leather-Helmet-German-Officer-Pickelhaube-Helmet/161900445403?hash=item25b204bedb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false...
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    Replica with LOTS of bids

    The seller states: "WW1 German Spike Helmet. Came from local collectors estate sale. I don't know if this is period wwi or post war. Good condition". Apparently lots of people bid in the vain hope that it might be "period wwi", which it clearly isn't. Up to 23 (!!!) bids right now, and still...
  9. Jaap Verduijn

    "New" Wappen for the old Prussian lady

    This morning the "new" original Wappen for my old Prussian lady arrived. It was cheap, on account of one of the loops on the backside having disappeared during the years: 30 euros which equals about 35 US dollars. For that money I'm quite prepared to accept the need for eventually soldering on a...
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    Another fake

    A replica, apparently artificially dirtied and aged. At least the seller states: "Da ich nicht 100% weis wie alt dieses Teil ist, dieser günstige Preis" ("Since I don't know how old this piece is, this favourable price"). Still newcomers might be tempted to buy this "bargain" as the real thing...
  11. Jaap Verduijn

    Should I leave the spike stuff in place?

    Greetings all! The spikey contraption on my "old Prussian lady" has apparently seen some wear, not to mention dirt, during its lifetime. Of course it should be possible to replace the whole thing with another authentic original in better state, but I am reluctant to do this. You see, I tend to...
  12. Jaap Verduijn

    Der Minenkrieg auf Vauquois

    Coert (and maybe others who are interested), here is a seller who has Buchner's book "Der Minenkrieg auf Vauquois" with different prices, some of them quite decent. Unfortunately I didn't have my copy with me when in the early 1980's my father, my sister and I met the author Adolf Buchner, his...
  13. Jaap Verduijn

    If nothing else helps

    Greetings all! Please use the following option only if everything else has failed and despair eats away at your heart like dry rot at the liner of your favourite Pickelhaube :wink:. If you really, really, REALLY, for whatever reason, can't host/post your Pickelpics, send them in a PM to me and...
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    Please opinion on Prussian Infantry/Fusiliers Wappen

    Greetings all! I'd like, if possible, to have some information, opinions, ideas, conclusions, fantasies and/or tall tales about the Wappen on my new possession, an FR33 or FR38 Fusiliers Pickelhaube. The Wappen seems unusual in the sense that it has "overlapping" feathers underneath the letters...
  15. Jaap Verduijn

    I am a collector again! Prussian Fusilier M95!

    Whoopee! Yay! I am a collector again \:D/ ! Today Coert visited me, and we exchanged helmets: he received my Chasseur Adrian, and I was the recipient of a beautiful Prussian Fusilier's (FR33 or FR38 - I'll need ultraviolet light to make sure) Pickelhaube M95!!! To be frank, I firmly believe I...
  16. Jaap Verduijn

    How it started: Kochgeschirr

    This is how my WW1 interest started. In 1972, as a 26 years young man under the benign guidance of my father who had an enormous knowledge of everthing pertaining to the battles around Verdun, I dug this German mess tin AKA Kochgeschirr up on the top of Les Eparges, behind and close to the...
  17. Jaap Verduijn

    The sad tale of the flattened spike

    It must have been in the late 1980's that, on one of my dozens of vacations in the Verdun/Meuse-Argonne area, I dug up a perfectly preserved spike of a Mannschafts Pickelhaube. 't Was on the slope of the Mort Homme, and in those days of yore nobody bothered you when you arrived on the...
  18. Jaap Verduijn

    THAT small? Really?

    Now what do we have here? Look at the relationship between the sizes of the Kokarden and the helmet itself! Really that small? Indeed, if I read correctly, the size could be 36!!! But that seems impossible... A very remarkable Train helmet to say the least. Can't afford it - otherwise I might...
  19. Jaap Verduijn

    Adrian from my basement

    Rummaging in my basement where some rusty stuff from my dozens of vacations in the Verdun and Meuse/Argonne area is still resting, I also encountered this long forgotten French helmet: the well-known Adrian, with the "Soldat de la Grande Guerre" emblem. I must have flung it downstairs long...
  20. Jaap Verduijn

    M1915 - saltier than the Dead Sea

    What do you guys/gals think about this one? An M1915 which looks like it has a combination of brass and oxydized steel hardware. Thirty years ago I wouldn't have touched the bloody thing with a ten feet pole - but those golden times have been carried away on the sad winds of change and this...
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