Hannoverian Infantry Regiment 74 Officers Pickelhaube identified to owner

[nzef1940]

Ex Weitze and totally untouched, the white bit around where plate removed is old metal polish residue (fossilised)..

‘The wearer of the pickelhaube was Captain Wiliam Armbrecht,(Hannoverschen Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 74 ) who took part in both world wars and retired from the Wehrmacht in 1943 as a major in Driving Division 24/Hanover.’

Weitze purchased the item/s from the family.

I love untouched items and this fits the bill, fibre body also.

 

[Amybellars]

Very nice. Congrats

 

[John Josef]

Beautiful example

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

Very nice Congrats!

 

[argonne]

Hello,

Beautiful and interesting helmet! I love those named helmets!

Do you see a name or name tag in the helmet? Because I know that HW is sometimes telling stories

Here is mine, named to Oberleutnant Kurt (Curt) Gabriel, Regiments Adjutant of the JR74, wounded 22.8.14 in Belgium. (Thanks to Glenn for his help!). He also was the publisher of the JR74 Regiments Geschichte. He was one of the last Flügel-Adjutant of the Kaiser in Doorn and died 1933 in Bremen. He still lays there today.

Philippe

 

[John Josef]

Congratulations Philippe that is a very beautiful Helmet with an incredible provenance

 

[KAGGR#1]

Ex Weitze and totally untouched, the white bit around where plate removed is old metal polish residue (fossilised)..

‘The wearer of the pickelhaube was Captain Wiliam Armbrecht,(Hannoverschen Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 74 ) who took part in both world wars and retired from the Wehrmacht in 1943 as a major in Driving Division 24/Hanover.’

Weitze purchased the item/s from the family.

I love untouched items and this fits the bill, fibre body also.

Very nice helmet
Steve

 

[KAGGR#1]

Hello,

Beautiful and interesting helmet! I love those named helmets!

Do you see a name or name tag in the helmet? Because I know that HW is sometimes telling stories

Here is mine, named to Oberleutnant Kurt (Curt) Gabriel, Regiments Adjutant of the JR74, wounded 22.8.14 in Belgium. (Thanks to Glenn for his help!). He also was the publisher of the JR74 Regiments Geschichte. He was one of the last Flügel-Adjutant of the Kaiser in Doorn and died 1933 in Bremen. He still lays there today.

Philippe

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Great story and great helmet
Thanks for the post
It doesn't get any better this one

Ref ; Weitze
maybe so
but adding a name to the helmet?
What does he have to gain?
He will ask his price for the helmet
with or without a name.
Years ago before Kube became so famous with his auction
I bought 3 helmets direct from Kube. No auction
He told me that he got all 3 helmets direct from the family
He named the officers
the helmets were
2 Garde Regt zu Fuss
2 Garde Dragoons
I forget helmet # 3
Kube added a signed letter
with the information
I still have all 3 many years later
so I believed Kube's story
Steve

 

[nzef1940]

Thanks for all the comments, Re Weitze and ‘buy the item not the story’ etc but no reason to lie and the attribution was certainly not reflected in the price. There is a second helmet to the same unit but earlier leather with the same initials ‘WA’ as per mine. I suspect they came together.

PS, great helmet Philippe.

 

[John Josef]

‘buy the item not the story’

Words of wisdom for sure

 

[argonne]

Weitze and ‘buy the item not the story

Researching and identifying names in helmets in period archives is one of my great passions for much years, and I have noticed on several occasions in the past that HW often told a lot of nonsense when he claimed that such and such a helmet had been worn by such and such an officer, quoting a passage from the Ehrenrangliste. It was perfectly clear that the configuration of the helmet was totally inconsistent with the possibility of the unit quoted. Furthermore, I once had the opportunity to acquire a provincial Landwehr Kavallerie officer's helmet from the attic of a castle on the Rhine. In addition to this helmet, there were 3-4 other officers' caps and helmets from members of the same family, all totally untouched and really salty. These other headdresses were dispersed during other sales and one of the caps, exactly the same (I had saved all the photos of the sale) reappeared a few weeks later on the HW sale site, with other cockades sewn on it, completely cleaned and presented in another convolut with the name of another officer.
Similarly, I observed troop helmets on his site whose wappen had been falsely interchanged because of a misinterpretation of the regimental stamps on the neckguards, particularly exchanges of Guards wappen and grenadier wappen with the big eagle. HW also has a large stock of spare parts and a small workshop where some helmets are completed or modified.
You always has to be very careful and look twice and only follow your own feeling based on your own expérience! A highly reputed vendor with a high street profile is never synonymous with perfect confidence.
Philippe

 

[nzef1940]

Researching and identifying names in helmets in period archives is one of my great passions for much years, and I have noticed on several occasions in the past that HW often told a lot of nonsense when he claimed that such and such a helmet had been worn by such and such an officer, quoting a passage from the Ehrenrangliste. It was perfectly clear that the configuration of the helmet was totally inconsistent with the possibility of the unit quoted. Furthermore, I once had the opportunity to acquire a provincial Landwehr Kavallerie officer's helmet from the attic of a castle on the Rhine. In addition to this helmet, there were 3-4 other officers' caps and helmets from members of the same family, all totally untouched and really salty. These other headdresses were dispersed during other sales and one of the caps, exactly the same (I had saved all the photos of the sale) reappeared a few weeks later on the HW sale site, with other cockades sewn on it, completely cleaned and presented in another convolut with the name of another officer.
Similarly, I observed troop helmets on his site whose wappen had been falsely interchanged because of a misinterpretation of the regimental stamps on the neckguards, particularly exchanges of Guards wappen and grenadier wappen with the big eagle. HW also has a large stock of spare parts and a small workshop where some helmets are completed or modified.
You always has to be very careful and look twice and only follow your own feeling based on your own expérience! A highly reputed vendor with a high street profile is never synonymous with perfect confidence.
Philippe

I agree and am very wary of HW descriptions in general…