I have bought this helmet recently and it was declared as 1880model. I rcognised it is 1860 model and also I have seen marek on front from missing Garde eagle. Also needs to be said that I colect all stuff from Austo-Prusso war 1866 in Bohemia, as I was born in this area.
This is what it looked when i got it. Wrong eag, missing front rim but over all in very decent condition. The shape of leather was bit crushed from side.
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First I started to clean the metal parts and washed the leather from mud and dirt.
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1st Garde regiment was a key to victory in battle by Koniggratz. "The commander of the Prussian 1st Guard Division, Lt General Friedrich Hiller von Gärtringen, now saw that the hinge of the whole Austrian position rested on the village of Chlum and its high ground. I the village itself, the Austrian brigade of Brigadier General Carl von Appiano had, as yet, not become aware of the tide that was about to break over it. Than, when it did, his troops were forced out of the village and streaming back toward the rear, taking their reserves along with them. One lone cavalry battery, under Captain August von der Groeben, endeavoured to stem the Prussian advance. Its first salvos were answered by such a crippling enemy fire from all sides that with the space of five minutes he was killed, together with 53 men and 68 horses. Groeben is little remembered today. A crude monument erected on the spot bears the poignant inscription “The Battery of the Dead.”
This is what it looked when i got it. Wrong eag, missing front rim but over all in very decent condition. The shape of leather was bit crushed from side.
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First I started to clean the metal parts and washed the leather from mud and dirt.
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1st Garde regiment was a key to victory in battle by Koniggratz. "The commander of the Prussian 1st Guard Division, Lt General Friedrich Hiller von Gärtringen, now saw that the hinge of the whole Austrian position rested on the village of Chlum and its high ground. I the village itself, the Austrian brigade of Brigadier General Carl von Appiano had, as yet, not become aware of the tide that was about to break over it. Than, when it did, his troops were forced out of the village and streaming back toward the rear, taking their reserves along with them. One lone cavalry battery, under Captain August von der Groeben, endeavoured to stem the Prussian advance. Its first salvos were answered by such a crippling enemy fire from all sides that with the space of five minutes he was killed, together with 53 men and 68 horses. Groeben is little remembered today. A crude monument erected on the spot bears the poignant inscription “The Battery of the Dead.”
