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Another CDV for the Pickelhaube.com photo archives

Some cabinet size cards of children wearing their “uniforms”

Saxon Other Ranks Uhlan with his spouse. Not exactly sure of the regiment, but leaning toward the 21st as the studio was in Niederwiesa near Chemwitz And under magnification I think I see the Imperial Crown on the epaulette.

I believe several of these were taken while the flying candidate was at flight school- I think kind of a graduation picture. Three of the images posted here came from the collection of a enlisted pilot, who was the grandfather of my college roommate. He believe he flew observation aircraft. I...

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A couple of Garde Uhlans and the third picture is what I think is the 1st Hanover

The reverse of the middle photo bears the inscription: “In memory of Carl's service in the army. He died at the young age of 23 on January 18th, 1919, and is dearly missed by all his relatives. The school of life has no holidays."

The shoulder up portrait was taken in Fulda. The 3/4 length guardsman was taken at a Berlin studio.

Want to place a few images here

This one is on a post card

A few portrait photos taken of German sailors while cruising Asiatic waters. Taken in photo studios in China and Japan. Both British and American sailors favored certain studios in Hong Kong and Shanghai….I have yet to study enough German asiatic portraits to know if Germans did likewise. One...

A few portrait photos taken of German sailors while cruising Asiatic waters. Taken in photo studios in China and Japan. Both British and American sailors favored certain studios in Hong Kong and Shanghai….I have yet to study enough German asiatic portraits to know if Germans did likewise. Note...

This oversize cabinet card taken in China, shows a young infantryman of the East Asian 2nd Infantry Regiment. I am guessing he is wearing the 1900 field gray winter tunic jacket with stand down collar. He also had chosen to rest his grey felt covered pickelhaube on a studio prop table, that also...

Don’t know if anyone else augments their collection with vintage German manufactured toy soldiers. This set of Prussian Dragoons, despite missing a few figures, is a nice example of Pre-war German toy making skill. At one time Germany was a big exporter of lead toy soldiers until a British...

I have a strong interest in foreign forces operating in and around China during the last century, and so when this one came up recently on German eBay, I thought I would acquire it. Taken by a local Chinese photographer, a cabinet card size image which is usual, as unlike the Americans at that...

I have a strong interest in foreign forces operating in and around China during the last century, and so when this one came up recently on German eBay, I thought I would acquire it. Cabinet card size image which is usual, as unlike the Americans at that time in country, the majority of imperial...

Here is one I found a number of years ago. I believe it’s from Train Battalion 8. It did not have cockades when found.

If anyone has read Robert Whittaker’s “Dragon Master” about Lt Gunther Pluschow’s adventures in the sky above Tsingtao during the siege, you might remember the author noting a Japanese photographer named T. Takahashi. Takahashi was a Japanese photographer who set up a studio in Tsingtau before...

I have had this one for decades….I bought it as a kid from the long gone Soldier Shop of New York City in the late 70’s. Liner was long gone even then….but it was within my price range at the time