Early Christmas Present: Prussian Paymaster with field cover

[ww1czechlegion]

Hello,

This one came in today. An uncleaned Prussian Paymaster helmet plus a DRP marked cloth field cover.

The family I bought this from lived in Germany in the 1950's and acquired it there.

Missing one officer star from the spike base. The silver fittings haven't been cleaned for decades, they have a heavy dark patina on them.

It's been a lucky year for me finding helmets from families.

Best Regards,

Alan

 

[911car]

Congratulations Alan. A very nice, evocative helmet, and a great Christmas gift.
Happy holidays!
Bruno

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

Alan- great news that you got it, looks even better now with your pictures, nice find

James

 

[b.loree]

Hot damn....that is one sweet haube with uberzug!!

 

[Spiker]

Great helmet :thumb up:
Happy holidays!

 

[Westfront]

Nice haube and cover :thumb up: .

 

[Leone]

Nice helmet :thumb up:

 

[Adler]

You must be very happy now! Congratulations!

Adler

 

[kaiser]

this is a nice present you got there
nice one to unwrap during the holydays

jonas

 

[ww1czechlegion]

Thanks for all the nice compliments gentlemen, I appreciate it!

Best Regards,

Alan

 

[poniatowski]

What a nice Christmas present! Well done, nice find indeed.

Ron

 

[edwin]

Great helmet and cover

Thanks for sharing!

Regards,

Edwin

 

[glenn66]

As said on the WRF, great helmet! :thumb up:

 

[mauihiu]

Alan,

Nice helmet!!

 

[Bungo]

I think I need to start chatting to German families! Not so easy from half a world away in Australia

Beautiful acquisition.

 

[pointystuff]

Wow. Now that's patina. =D>

 

[aicusv]

I think I need to start chatting to German families!

You have to pick the right family. I married into one with 5 vets and they had no helmets.