Pickelhaube M15

[aicusv]

I don't know what happened to my earlier post on this, but what I said was after 100 years the leather shrinkage can play with the fit of the Wappen. The hole spacing will change and a Wappen that was on a helmet that shrunk will measure different from one that wasn't.

 

[Lars13]

I've only taken the helmets where I'm pretty convinced that the standard Prussian Wappen is original to the helmet. Measured with a tape along the Wappen from the cross on the head to the tail feathers, +/- 1 mm measuring inaccuracy :

Year - Maker - Size - Wappen - Height
1896 - Unknown - 56 - 11.0 cm
1906 - Unknown - 55 1/2 - 11.0 cm
1910 - Rudolf Wiemer, Mülheim-Ruhr - 55 - 10.8 cm
1910 - E. de la Croix Nachf. Berlin - Unknown - 10.8 cm
1916 - Wilhelm Becker & Co? - 55 - 10.8 cm
Loose Tombak Wappen - 10.8 cm
Loose iron Wappen - 10.7 cm

As all Wappen seem to be 10.9 mm +/- 1 mm in height, I conclude from this very limited data set that there is only one standard Prussian Wappen size.

If you have very large or small Prussian helmets please measure the Wappen height so we can (dis-)prove above conclusion.

Regards, Lars

 

[MP75]

Hi,

I also did some measuring.

The Prussian Officer (size 57 1/2) is 11cm.

I dont know the size of the M15, but it seems a bigger. Here I measured 11,6 cm







BR
Marc

 

[MP75]

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[aicusv]

I thought we were talking about the measurement between mounting holes? I've found that the Prussian Wappen measures between 7 to 8cm from center of loop to center of loop.

 

[MP75]

Hi,
Indeed, it started with the measurements between the mounting holes.
As a sideeffect, it seems that I could learn that some Prussian Wappen are taller than other Prussian Wappens.
BR
Marc