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I hate myself because the day after I ordered this, the dealer listed a MINT gold example which I missed and was sold to someone else.

Here’s a very nice piece I paid dearly for, but it was worth it as I have seen only a couple ones in better condition. Silver wound badge for naval personnel. These would’ve mostly gone to coastal troops considering the chances of being wounded multiple times on a U-boat or a surface vessel...

They always say in documentaries that the grip angle was perfect for shooters but I don’t get it. Shot the first 100 rounds one handed and couldn’t hit Jack at 10 yards. The moment I switched to a modern stance I hit dead center at 15 yards

Got this as a self birthday gift several months ago. Not several hours after turning 21 I made my way to the gun store to fill out the paperwork. It’s a 1918 DWM example with most of the bluing still there. Non matching magazine. Took it out for a spin and it shoots beautifully as expected.

Woah, thank you so much. If that’s the case then I misidentified the S as a J haha. As much as I wish your source matches my helmet, I don’t believe that’s my guy. The helmet I have is for an officer. There are no unteroffizier features on it. Again, thank you for the help

There’s also the size marking with some writing next to it as well. “56”, this needs to explanation. But “13 1/2”? This I’m not sure of. There’s some handwriting in old German script below it

Hi all, I recently purchased a beautiful Saxon officers (photos to come soon). When I examined it in person, what swayed me to buy it was the personal touch of some writing inside however I cannot for the life of me figure out what some of the writings mean. To my eyes it appears to be...

Came up with it one thanksgiving after squirting Sriracha on my Turkey and used it as a gaming username for years. I’ve actually tried to change the forum user to my real name but no admins have approved yet. I appreciate it, and had hoped for the background story when I posted this. I used...

Thank you! I am at a whopping two helmets so far. Next on the list is a Bavarian or Saxon. Whichever comes first

@Tony without Kaiser

Fantastic examples

Hi all, this one came in the other month from a friend in the UK. Really happy with it and its solid condition I’m bad with forums and don’t know how to tag people, so if someone could please tag Tony Schnurr, that would be appreciated because I believe this was one of his and can be observed...

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No problem. And that is true, now try finding all three grades of the navy wound badge, AND their cut out versions. That would take us years to do. It’s on my list though

There’s a term called “Hohlverbodet” which essentially refers to solid back wound badges (99% of imperial wound badges are hallow) and there are specific variants of the Hohlverbodet that were known to have been made prior to 1919. Though how to identify it is outside the realm of my wound badge...

Hi there, they were die struck as cut outs. I’m unaware of any examples where someone took a regular wound badge and cut out the fields, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. It is of note that the vast majority of wound badges, and all cut outs (to my knowledge) were 1920’s and 30’s...

An old photo I found of my wound badge set. Please excuse the dirty gloves

Here’s the pioneers I got from Tony Cowan at the SOS. I don’t exactly have a light box so I improvised with a white board and 4 sheets of paper.

Gosh, I don’t think I’ve posted on here in a few years. I took time away from imperial German back in 2019 in order to focus on South Vietnamese militaria, however I’ve decided to come back as the Pickelhaube was the first interest I ever had in regards to militaria. I’ve done so by picking up...

Random Pickelhaube questions, feel free to answer any of them 1. (Main Question) What's the best way to look for and buy Pickelhaube? 2. At this point in time what's a rough estimate for the value of a Prussian m95 3. How do a tell if a chinstrap is original