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Thank you Piotr. I am glad my book is of use to you. And, I hope, useful to the Blanke Waffen collector community as a whole. George

Yes, that is my book. A bit hard to get anymore as it is out of print. George Wheeler

A nice lot of bayonets. The "Butcher Blade" bayonets are called the S 98/05 in German nomenclature. These Weimar Republic time period bayonets are covered in Chapter 3 of my book, "Seitegewehr: History of the German Bayonet 1919-1945". Yours are all unaltered from the Imperial time period...

Your knife was made in the general style of the KS98 (Seitengewehr) and looks to me like a private purchase rather than an item of issue. The frog is too big for this knife as it would wobble around. The black paint is probably original to the knife and scabbard. I would classify it as a...

Happy New Year to all here.

Really a nicely detailed presentation Kindersabel.

These theater house property wardrobe uniforms can vary from entirely original to seamstress reproduced from new or parts in my experience. If I am looking at it I see the Landgendarmerie (LG21) markings in the lining. These seem to indicate a LandGendarmerie property marking for the year of...

Interesting! I have not seen this particular re-work before. I notice the rivet in the back seems to be different than the rest? I also see the Police decals are the correct ones applied in the proper manner. I see that the two holes that were made for the brass Austrian Gendarmerie flaming...

Congratulations on an excellent LG helmet giorgio. I am glad to know that the numbers stamped next to the "LG" designation inside the helmet indicates the year of issue. I previously thought they might have indicated a specific Gendarmerie unit or area. Thank you for asking your questions. I...

My wife and I just got over Covid. I took Paxlovid and my wife did not and she recovered faster than I did. Her case morphed into a sinus infection and mine into pneumonia. This new strain seems to do that my Doc tells me. We both then took antibiotics and are better now. A nasty bug to...

Thank you all for your positive comments. The bayonet hanger idea came to me one day as I was looking at a blank wall in my collection rooms. This display consists of four 8' lengths of steel hot round rod available at the hardware store. These heavy stiff rods rest horizontally on three...

Not to grab your thread but I actually had to turn down a free glass front/sides museum display cabinet a week or two ago because I had no place to put it. I may have a bigger problem if I am running out of display cabinet room due to too much stuff to put in it. Oh well. So, I also have a...

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Many thanks for the steel shell maker information. Your maker suggestion was just confirmed to me by another collector as, "LS stands for Linnemann & Schnetzer". Peter, thanks for the info on the Hamburg steel helmet. I already have one or I would pounce on it. George

Gents, I just picked up a nice example of the postwar Bavarian barracked police steel helmet that I thought I would show. My new steel helmet came in the mail yesterday so I suppose it meets the requirement of a "latest find" and it is a German helmet. This is the Bavarian steel helmet...

These eagle head pommel sabers are hard to find. Nicely displayed as well.

Thanks for your kudos. Here is an example of the earlier style of Hessian Infantry Officer Portepee just to show the difference.

I picked up a nice Hessian Officer sword knot last week that I thought I would show. In an earlier thread I showed a Hessian Infantry Officer sword with a proper early Hesse knot with a round ball and stem and slider used for Infantry Officers prior to 1889. This is the later knot used after...

Excellent information in an easy to understand format. Thanks!

I will take your shooting lanyard if still available. George