new one on me

[pointystuff]

This is something I've not seen before...
http://cgi.ebay.com/PRE-WWI-IMPERIAL-GERMAN-ARMY-ARTY-FIRE-BRIGADE-HELMET_W0QQitemZ300264246266QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item300264246266&_trkparms=72%3A1205|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ebayphotohosting
Brad

 

[joerookery]

I wish it was true, but I do not think so. I think my helmet is junk -- inexpensive junk but junk nonetheless. This is a classic example of not following Tony's advice as he laid out several days ago. I was trying to rationalize that it may be like the helmet in volume one of Larcard.

 

[pointystuff]

Johansson's book Spiked Helmets mentions fire helmets with spikes soldered on top of the comb (page 54).
It looks like the Germans would've simply removed the comb and added a
spike via the normal method.
It's a mystery.
Brad

 

[Gustaf]

these look like something that would have been worn at a gay rights parade in Weimar Germany
Gus

 

[Robert]

I would suppose that these are simple examples of commander helmets. Commanders of fire brigade did usually where spikes. I remeber a story of a commander who was arrested by the french on a trip over the rhine river because they held him for military personnel. On a budget, such a helmet would be a cheap way to distinguish the chief of a group.

http://die.kreisjugendfeuerwehr-wug.de/BilderSammlung/846.jpg