Looks to be a liner to Pickelhaube bead roller.
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Naprawiacz
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The eagle motif on the armor resembles King Sigismund II Augustus (1568)?
CLOVIS 57
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Here are some photos from my archives of B.I.A. (repair stores) or suppliers' fabrication/assembly workshops.
B.A. 12 Saxon: operation to recycle M95s into M15s
Military workshop : :
Atelier du fabricant BUSSE :
Infra, Weissenburger or Von der Heyde workshop : sheet metal helmets are made here, the only helmets to be made in 3 parts (the neck cover and visor are crimped to the shell along with the basane liner).
Frankonia Beierfeld workshop:
Balancing pressto make eagles. :
Here, the helmet is stamped from a single piece of sheet metal. No crimping.
The various stamping steps involved in making a Stahlhelm from a steel plate wafer.
B.A. 12 Saxon: operation to recycle M95s into M15s
Military workshop : :
Atelier du fabricant BUSSE :
Infra, Weissenburger or Von der Heyde workshop : sheet metal helmets are made here, the only helmets to be made in 3 parts (the neck cover and visor are crimped to the shell along with the basane liner).
Frankonia Beierfeld workshop:
Balancing pressto make eagles. :
Here, the helmet is stamped from a single piece of sheet metal. No crimping.
The various stamping steps involved in making a Stahlhelm from a steel plate wafer.
CLOVIS 57
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The above-mentioned crimper was for the Weissenburger-Cannstatt helmet, a registered design accepted by the German army and the subject of a supply contract. (and also the Von der Heyde, manufactured in Berlin under license from Weissenburger).
The basane liner is missing. You can clearly see the remains of the leather, stuck in the crimping bead.
All other sheet metal hulls are in one piece.5((y
(including Bing).
Bavarian Bing
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pickelhauben
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Looks like felts and tin helmets were made at the same time.
I did not realize this !
I did not realize this !
CLOVIS 57
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I don't think so. I'm thinking more of the M15 sheet metal model, entirely painted in Feldgrau (khaki). Felt helmets, in fact, have iron trimmings that are not the same color as the felt, whereas here, the whole helmet is the same color.
I don't think so. I'm thinking more of the M15 sheet metal model, entirely painted in Feldgrau (khaki). Felt helmets, in fact, have iron trimmings that are not the same color as the felt, whereas here, the whole helmet is the same color.
0we recognize the Teller-style crimped tip (to compensate for the felt bomb) and the faux rivets, typical of Weissenburger.
But the sheet metal Ersatz factories only made iron helmets.
To my knowledge, only Weissenburger (and VdHeyden) made helmets in iron and felt.
Only BING made helmets in iron and pressed cardboard.
pickelhauben
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I respectively disagree with you.
The black tin helmets have a sheen and the grey/green helmets do not.
You can see in the pics that some of the grey helmets wappens have a sheen.
The bodies don't.
So in my eyes they are making felts along with tins.
In one of the pics the flat spot under the cocarde area is flexing. ( felt)
The tin bodied would not flex like this.
The black tin helmets have a sheen and the grey/green helmets do not.
You can see in the pics that some of the grey helmets wappens have a sheen.
The bodies don't.
So in my eyes they are making felts along with tins.
In one of the pics the flat spot under the cocarde area is flexing. ( felt)
The tin bodied would not flex like this.
poniatowski
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Similar, yes. My branch of the family is descended from minor nobility. However, the area they were in was known for Poniatowski member who were indeed knights. I just found that out last week and thought it odd that I make armor.
poniatowski
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Clovis: NICE photos! I hadn't seen quite a few of them.
poniatowski
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Some of mine. All are as purchased, so some replacement (repro) straps and cockades:
