Which ones did you buy Amy? You were fortunate to be able to get 3 of them.
All the helmets that were priced reasonably were gone in less than 2-minutes time.
The Anhalt was very reasonably priced, far less than I thought Jeff would price it.
The Anhalt wappen looked like it might be original. (I had a real Anhalt device & star that I unfortunately sold a couple years ago before realizing that Brian needed one.) I saw the Fuerst eagle wappen was been broken down by the eagle claw/lower sceptor area, which isn't the end of the world. Was it me, or did the eagle look "copper color" on some of the raised highlights of the eagle? Maybe it was just my eyes, or the flash from Anna's camera lights on the eagle.
The depot marking was not the standard block lettering. It was more stylized with the lettering. It was ink stamped though. I think that I've seen them marked A.I.R. 92 before. I just couldn't remember the stylized lettering from past markings that I have seen. Just my bad memory and old age.
The parts on the Ulan helmet were worth way more than the asking price of the tschapka. (original fagnschnur, yellow rabatte, enlisted hair plume, etc.) I thought long and hard about it, but in the end I didn't pull the trigger on it. Someone got a real bargain of goodies!
I was interested in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin issued reservist helmet, but unfortunately I didn't have enough "haube" funds for it when I saw the price. It was the last one that sold several minutes later after the "Oklahoma Land Rush" initial scramble and frenzied buying. I missed an equally nice non-reservist and not unit marked example last November at an auction that I drove 300 miles one way to attend. Weitze recently sold another example as well.
Best Wishes,
Alan