Are you FRIGGIN' kidding!?

poniatowski

poniatowski

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-Imperial-German-Spiked-Helmet-Pickelhaube-Officers-Parade-Hair-PLUME-/321960044226?hash=item4af65066c2:g:WysAAOSwSHZWgGI2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

These parade plumes seldom if ever come up for sale without their helmets - this one is from a pickelhaube that I recently sold where the buyer didn't want the helmet plume as he wanted to display it with a spike top so the helmet was sold without the plume (or cardboard transit case which the buyer didn't want either).
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Okay, so if this was an associated set (doesn't say if it was or not) tell the buyer to PISS OFF if he doesn't want the entire set! He also doesn't say if it came off of the Garde helmet shown. ... or am I going postal for no reason again? ......

:D Ron
 
If you read again, the supposed buyer did not want the "transit case" either so it is going to be sold on Ebay as well. Can not believe any true collector would turn down a cased helmet with trichter. :-?
 
b.loree said:
If you read again, the supposed buyer did not want the "transit case" either so it is going to be sold on Ebay as well. Can not believe any true collector would turn down a cased helmet with trichter. :-?
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Agreed, but I also don't understand a dealer breaking up a set, but I suppose it happens all of the time. ?

Ron
 
poniatowski said:
b.loree said:
If you read again, the supposed buyer did not want the "transit case" either so it is going to be sold on Ebay as well. Can not believe any true collector would turn down a cased helmet with trichter. :-?
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Agreed, but I also don't understand a dealer breaking up a set, but I suppose it happens all of the time. ?

Ron
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Money. Just as illuminated books etc. are cut to pieces to sell the pictures one at a time - money.

I think there is a special circle in Hell for such greed.
 
b.loree said:
Can not believe any true collector would turn down a cased helmet with trichter. :-?
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I guess I am not a true collector then, as I have done this many times. I don't collect parade anything, as I have spent far too much of my life being on parade. Plus I find Pickelhaube zu Parade just plain hideous and don't have a single example, except the GKR as who doesn't like a big Preußen Adler?

Every complete helmet I ever had that came with one of those ghastly Haarbusche things, I kept the helmet and sold the hideous hair thing as fast as possible. I admit that I kept an issued Tschapka, Tschako, and Pelzmütze example, but those are in a box somewhere. And I cannot stand those utterly useless cardboard Etui. At one time I had a closet full, stacked like cord wood and happily sold them off. Good riddance.
 
To each their own, as I love them and have many on display. But I get where Tony is coming from, It is a personal thing.


They are harder to display as most of my shelves are not wide enough in between, so they all get special places.


Tony remember your friend to the South next time you have one to get rid of :D

Best

James
 
Actually James, geographically speaking....you are more to the north and west of T's location, not south. :) Well to each his own on this discussion. I have never purchased a cased helme, so never encountered that problem. I also only have one trichtered helme in the collection to JR 119. I can agree, though that I would much prefer a spike to a trichter.
 
Along the same trend....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Original-WW-I-Pickelhaube-German-Prussian-Helmet-Cover-/191759858001?hash=item2ca5c73951:g:vKQAAOSwajVUUT6-" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
It looks like Rudolf Wiemer, which is already in your list (possibly misspelled as Wiener?...).
I cannot make the place out.
 
911car said:
// (possibly misspelled as Wiener?...) //
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Yes, completely a matter of taste. Speaking of Wieners, I know a great guy and fellow wiener dog lover named Steve in Texas (Joe you know him too?) Who only collects zu Parade helmets and it is quite a sight. Just not what I collect.

I agree, when a set is historically signicicant, like the amazing Verein (association) Braunschweigisches Infanterie-Regt. Nr.92. Pickelhaube of Herzog Ernst August von Hannover (III) that Bruno bought, you really have no choice but to keep the grouping together.
 
I know a great guy and fellow wiener dog lover named Steve in Texas (Joe you know him too?)
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Yes, Steve and Karen are great folks. We try to get out to dinner at least once a month. Massive collection – as you said lots of plumes. His collecting is over taking his entire house!
 
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