Hi Gents,
Here is my small contribution to this very interesting post:
First, a set of cockades worn on my M95 Mecklenburg-Strelitz GR89 II Bataillon Mannschaft helmet (same as on Mecklenburg-Schwerin helmets):
Then a set of cockades from my saxon M95 Tr.A.12 helmet, vulkan fiber war production. Those cockades are made of very thin tin-plate metal:
And last but not least, a very interesting combination, a Portepee-Unteroffizier Reichs-cockade and a Württemberg Offizier state cockade, worn
on the same helmet (!), a PB13, GR119 or GR123 haube, which wearer was an Portepee-Unteroffizier der Reserve in peace time (probably a one year volunteer who did not get his Offizier Patent) and who passed to an Offizierstellvertreter during the war, because of great loss of officers during the first months of the war. Both cockades are mounted on german silver M91 side posts, under the typical M15 officer chinscales. Note that the cardboard discs have been originally removed from the back of both cockades, to reduce the extrem tightness between chinscales and side posts.
Philippe