Hi,
new on this website, I would like first to introduce myself as a french collector mainly collecting french uniforms and headgears of the 1910-1915 period; I also collect german militaria picked up on the 1914 & 1915 battlefieds by the french soldiers. For example, one of my last purchases in a french local auction sale is a saxony reservist artillery trooper helmet of the FAR 78 with a splinter mark on the top ball!
My question today is related to my very last purchase last saturday in another local french auction sale: a beautiful M95 helmet brand new condition and beautifully stamped of the 4th guard grenadier (Augusta) regiment, dated 1900 and re-issued in 1914 (see the one on EBay US at the moment, actually its brother).
The plate is not the usual guard one but the 4rth grenadier one usued after 1911, mine without the 1626 plate. The guard star "Suum Cuique" has been placed in the middle with the usual two hooks attached to the plate with two little tongs of hard leather. This way the star hides the "koenig" word of the usual prussian motto "mit gott fur Koenig und vaterland".
Everything seems to be original, the plate is perfecty stamped on the skull leather, there is absolutely not any other mark of another plate on the skull varnish.
What does that means? Is this GGR4 helmet stamped a first time in 1900 and probably reissued in 1914 has been equiped with a grenadier plate transformed as a guard one with the SuumCuique star because the war supply shortages? Is that possible with the imperial guard?
:?: Some french well known pickelhaube collectors told me that they have seen other examples like mine. What do you think? Do some of you have some similar examples in their collection?
I will try to post some pictures in a following message.
Thank you for your attention :?:
new on this website, I would like first to introduce myself as a french collector mainly collecting french uniforms and headgears of the 1910-1915 period; I also collect german militaria picked up on the 1914 & 1915 battlefieds by the french soldiers. For example, one of my last purchases in a french local auction sale is a saxony reservist artillery trooper helmet of the FAR 78 with a splinter mark on the top ball!
My question today is related to my very last purchase last saturday in another local french auction sale: a beautiful M95 helmet brand new condition and beautifully stamped of the 4th guard grenadier (Augusta) regiment, dated 1900 and re-issued in 1914 (see the one on EBay US at the moment, actually its brother).
The plate is not the usual guard one but the 4rth grenadier one usued after 1911, mine without the 1626 plate. The guard star "Suum Cuique" has been placed in the middle with the usual two hooks attached to the plate with two little tongs of hard leather. This way the star hides the "koenig" word of the usual prussian motto "mit gott fur Koenig und vaterland".
Everything seems to be original, the plate is perfecty stamped on the skull leather, there is absolutely not any other mark of another plate on the skull varnish.
What does that means? Is this GGR4 helmet stamped a first time in 1900 and probably reissued in 1914 has been equiped with a grenadier plate transformed as a guard one with the SuumCuique star because the war supply shortages? Is that possible with the imperial guard?
:?: Some french well known pickelhaube collectors told me that they have seen other examples like mine. What do you think? Do some of you have some similar examples in their collection?
I will try to post some pictures in a following message.
Thank you for your attention :?: