Maple Creek
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This one came in a few days ago and I've been enjoying having it on my desk.
This helmet as well as the one other example that I can find with reference books on hand has a somewhat different construction compared to the standard Prussian shako. It has a thick band of leather at the bottom of the shako body and different vents (half circle instead of circle with holes).
The stamp is a very similar to one posted on Joe's website. It's stamped M for Marine and dated 1905. It looks like 1 C, or 1st Company. The figure at the bottom should be the batallion number which looks like possibly Roman numeral IV? According to Jim Turinetti's book, however, there were only supposed to be three marine see batallions in the 1914 army. I'm still trying to puzzle this out.
Mark D.
This helmet as well as the one other example that I can find with reference books on hand has a somewhat different construction compared to the standard Prussian shako. It has a thick band of leather at the bottom of the shako body and different vents (half circle instead of circle with holes).
The stamp is a very similar to one posted on Joe's website. It's stamped M for Marine and dated 1905. It looks like 1 C, or 1st Company. The figure at the bottom should be the batallion number which looks like possibly Roman numeral IV? According to Jim Turinetti's book, however, there were only supposed to be three marine see batallions in the 1914 army. I'm still trying to puzzle this out.
Mark D.