Baden Reserve Infantry Regiment 109 Wappen on Pickelhaube

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I know that I and II Battalions wore the Litzen of Baden Leib Grenadier 109 Regiment and were allowed to wear the Crown on their schulterklappen. Did RIR 109's I and II Battalion's also wear the Wappen of BLG 109 on their Pickelhaube or just the regular Baden Griffin?
 
I do not own the picture but I have seen one very recently. For the most part I would expect only a normal Griffin. That is what the pictures show. However, it is also very possible that there were some with the star early in 1914. The active Regiment gave a bunch of hand-me-downs to the reserve Regiment so that is very possible.
 
Thanks for the info. If you come up with a scna of the photo, please let me know. The First and Second Battalions are what I am trying to figure out. My GreatGrandfather was in Kompanie 8 of RIR109 early int he war and then was a Machine Gunner in the MGK.
 
The answer is in Larcade book, Part 1, Page 58.
Helmets of the RIR 109 and LIR 109 wore a reserve cross above the griffons star with its small "Fidelitas" cross. But as Larcade wrote, most of the time the small "Fidelitas" cross was removed, because it could not be seen with the reserve cross above.... The banner of such helmets are also most of the time without the sentence "Mit Gott f. Fuerst u. Vaterland"
By the way, I was visiting a collector friend in northern France, a month ago. We could visit a very small private but fantastic museum in a farm, at Saint Waast, near Arras. An old guy spent his whole life to collect things he found on the Somme battlefields. In one of his display boards, there was a relic of such a scarce RIR or LIR 109 helmet wappen!!! Never saw one before!!

Philippe :salute:
 
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