A real fixer upper

joerookery

joerookery

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http://cgi.ebay.com/German-WWI-Lobster-Tail-Spike-Spiked-Helmet-wLiner_W0QQitemZ6622201735QQcategoryZ13965QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This one would need more than a little TLC. Zippy just bought a metal helmet in Canada at a show. I wonder how prices compare? There is a lot of money on this one.
 
Note Joe that this is a very rare helmet, with the open top spike. It does not require a trichter, all one needs to do is stuff the plume in the top of the spike. In the field, you could use straw, twigs or chicken feathers in lue of horse hair.

Zippy's helmet has the stink common spike that is 100% there. (oh sure he could cut the top off with a hack saw, but it wouldn't be the same)

I know how much Zippy paid for his helmet....everything he had!

Gus
 
You are wrong. The chopped spike was especially intended for crewmen on zeppelins. Look also at the interesting liner.
Bruno
 
Joe
since then I now have a nice small collection of 4 real haubs and 1 repop for reancting . the spike on mine will be modified to copy that one and I may have a spare brodie liner around . I knew I was ripped off I should just waited for the perfect helmet with the perfect markings and paid perfect cash. then I could look at my perfect Imperial collection of empty space.
Well all I gotta say is you all have a merry christmas for 2015 .
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zipperheads9 said:
Joe
since then I now have a nice small collection of 4 real haubs and 1 repop for reancting . the spike on mine will be modified to copy that one and I may have a spare brodie liner around . I knew I was ripped off I should just waited for the perfect helmet with the perfect markings and paid perfect cash. then I could look at my perfect Imperial collection of empty space.
Well all I gotta say is you all have a merry christmas for 2015 .
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Otto
 
Mikey:
Mark G. aka Zipperheads9 emailed me this week end requesting that he be removed from the members list. This came as a complete surprise to me. His reasons are personal. I naturally tried to get him to reconsider but he would like to take a break from the group. He is welcome back at any time. Brian
 
Mark e-mailed me to say he was quitting, I too, tried to get him to stay. I do not know why he wanted to be removed from the list, it is so easy not to log on if one does not want to participate. I will keep in touch with Mark, as he is my connection for poppies (the Drug Enforcement Agency will probably think that means that I am using opiates, as most people in the US do not have a clue as to the meaning of the poppies)
Gus
 
I will also be keeping in touch with Mark. I hope to meet him in person at one of the Toronto shows. Just so that the DEA does not come knocking at Gus's door. He means the red cloth poppies that the Canadian Legion sells in the weeks prior to Nov 11. These are worn by all of us as a sign of rememberance for those who made the supreme sacrifice in all wars. Our veterans are able to order custom licence plates which have the word veteran and a red poppy on them plus the usual numbers. Apparently this poppy custom is not followed in most States of the USA. Consequently, Gus orders them from Mark. The poppy was adopted as a rememberance symbol as a result of the poem written by Lt.Col. John McCrae, In Flanders Fields.
On Nov 11 all school children in Canada are given a poppy to wear. They can make a small donation for this but the poppies are given free if the kids do not have any small change. WW1 of course ended on November 11 at 11am. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 1918.
Brian
 
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