American Pickelhaube

pointystuff

pointystuff

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Does anyone out there have a reference book citation for this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-American-Dragoon-Spiked-Helmet-ca-1860_W0QQitemZ230347854805QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a1cd53d5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1205|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

Thanks,
Brad
 
I have Mark Kasal's and Don Moore's book. The seller of the helmet on eBay is caging, because he references the book but fails to mentioned this fact:

"The helmet itself was not leather but cloth-covered cork..."

I asked around, and the feeling is that the leather is probably restored. So it is a good example, but heavily, heavily restored.
 
Far away from my books but I think these American jobs are poorly documented. I did some looking a while ago
http://www.pickelhauben.net/articles/AmericanPickelhaube.htm

You see many in bad shape at SOS...but that price!
AmericanPickelhaube_21.jpg
 
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