Cheers from Italy

[DonMatteohh]

After almost a month of waiting for approval to post only to find out i had mistyped my email in the registration process here i am
Name is Matteo, hailing from Rome, Italy
I do tend to collect mainly helmets from all sorts of periods of time, however as of lately i have been doing increasingly more research into italian and german ww1 and pre-ww1 era items as that's ultimately where my heart resides
Nice to meet you all

 

[gino1]

Welcome to this world of pickelhaubes

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

Welcome, glad you joined

 

[John Josef]

Welcome to the forum.

Do you have the two-volume set of books The Italian Army in WWI by Davide Zendri and Francesco Frizzera published by Verlag Militaria.

If not, I can highly recommend it.

MFG John Josef

 

[Amybellars]

Hello, welcome to the forum.

 

[b.loree]

Good to have you join us!

 

[CLOVIS 57]

Welcome to this forum.
I know there are a few other Italians here. When I hike and mountaineer between Domodossola and Bolzano, I see many traces of the Austro-Italian War! And at the Sant'Angelo Museum, I saw an "Italian" spiked helmet !!!

 

[Peter B]

Bienvenuto!

 

[DonMatteohh]

Welcome to this forum.
I know there are a few other Italians here. When I hike and mountaineer between Domodossola and Bolzano, I see many traces of the Austro-Italian War! And at the Sant'Angelo Museum, I saw an "Italian" spiked helmet !!!

Oh hey I've been in that area multiple times! Try visiting Monte Piana if you haven't next, it's 2 mountains connected by a some bridge, on one side Italian trenches on the other austrohungarians

Btw what do you mean by Italian spiked helmet?

 

[John Josef]

Btw what do you mean by Italian spiked helmet?

This may be of interest.

From an old thread by Peter.

 

[DonMatteohh]

This may be of interest.

From an old thread by Peter.

Oh yeah these from the Vatican civic guard, those are lovely helmets, I've seen one at a show last Saturday too

 

[CLOVIS 57]

Oh hey I've been in that area multiple times! Try visiting Monte Piana if you haven't next, it's 2 mountains connected by a some bridge, on one side Italian trenches on the other austrohungarians

Btw what do you mean by Italian spiked helmet?

Thanks for the information. I didn't go, but I'll keep it in mind. As for the Italian spiked helmet, I'll try to find the photo. It's about ten years old, though. But it is indeed the one shown by John Joseph. Thank you to him.

 

[MoDog1]

Regarding Italian spiked helmets, in addition to the civic guard helmets, the Duchy of Parma adopted the Prussian style pickelhaube for its army during the 1850s, before it was absorbed into the united Italy. Here are a few examples:

 

[Sandmann]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Grabenmaxx]

Those Italian helmets look amazing. Must be very rare I assume.

 

[DonMatteohh]

Those Italian helmets look amazing. Must be very rare I assume.

Rather rare yeah, the last one i recognize, comes from an auction from this month, its from the Duchy of Parma and sold for 7.5K euros + VAT

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

Great helmets, welcome!