Knackered Baden EM.

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spikeymikey

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Can anyone tell me what has happened to this 6613925682? Why is it that shape? If this was an animal I'd have it painlessly put down. :sad1:
 
Ahhh, well done Gus. I was just testing! Not really. I never thought of Kinder. Kinder Eggs I think of a lot. But he says it's an EM helmet?
 
That is odd, usually when one errors, one errors toward a general's helmet. It looks like a very small corpus to me, and for that reason I would say Kinder Helm, but we also need to remember that people were much smaller then and many soldiers were children. Nutrition has a lot to do with size, 100 years ago, nearly every one was non the brink of starvation at some point inthe year, people were smaller but tougher (the weak died out early), now, many people do not know what hunger is(some people think that if they do not get to eat everything that they want, they are hungry) and now we have a lot of ... well, I should get off ,y soap box now.
Best wishes
Gus
 
Cheers Gus, we forget such things these days although I do recall food being somewhat limited occasionally as a kid and you ate what you were given.
But on second glance I dont think this is a kinder-helm. It's only my opinion but I cant imagine the people who made pickelhaubes back then being quite this lax and hamfisted when it comes to construction, even if it was only for a kid to run around in the garden with.
 
Time to end the kid gloves analysis of this piece of doo-doo. I know Mike has been deliberately facetious about the whole business.

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Need we comment further?

Chas.

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Only it seems to me that the Imperiak German Army has a large percentage of the little people heads..
The smaller uniforms applies to most nations, but head sizes seam to the
exception.
 
Hi Mark:

While I agree with you in general, it is important to consider the relative age of most new recruits. When I was seventeen, I wore a size 7-1/8 cap. At age forty-one, I wear size 7-1/2. Stature has certainly evolved over the generations. Were Germans appreciably smaller than other Europeans in 1914? I doubt it. We should also remember the Pickelhaube was worn above the occipital bone, where the circumference of the skull would be smaller. I believe the purpose behind this was twofold: to enhance the perceived height of the soldier and to prevent all those threaded bolts and fasteners from contacting the head.

By comparison, the average Stahlhelm appears gigantic. When the function is protection, an entirely different fit would be required.

Human morphological characteristics notwithstanding, let us return, for a moment, to the eBay listing.

Here is an exploded view of a feature unique to this helmet. Note the deft manner in which the peak, peak trim, and liner are assembled.

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I see nothing to distinguish this item from the ubiquitous trash characteristic of this seller. To my thinking, the only Kinder connection is that this helmet may have been assembled by child labor in some forgotten corner of the far East.

Perhaps it would be "kinder" if daylight had not been shed upon it.

Chas.
 
:D I agree thus is a dodo pieced together.
On the subject of helmet size even the Stalhelm's are proportionately smaller .The average age of a recruit should not apply as the German army was intermixed and comprised of men of ages up to thiers 50's .The Orbital Bone makes sence .
Mark G. :P
 
And from the same seller we have this little gem:

http://cgi.ebay.com/WW1-PRUSSIAN-GUARDS-PICKELHAUBE-HELMET-CIRCA-1915_W0QQitemZ6613535369QQcategoryZ13971QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Chas. :puke:
 
Is this what happens When you lat the kids play with your haubes?
What as it and why does(what ever it is0 have a grenadier plate on it :?
 
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