Grestro
New member
Hello everybody. I´m new here and I really need some help. I received this Wuerttemberg Pickelhaube the other day. I´m not an expert at all, but I think that some things don´t really fit together. Nevertheless the former owner told me, it was an original. May be a “late” and hardly worn privat purchase helmet or something like this?
Here´s a brief explanation:
- The helmet isn´t made out of leather, I think the corpus is made out of “blech”
- The spike can be removed
- The visor is green inside, the nackenschirm red inside
- At the inner side of the nackenschirm you can find a stamp 1918
- The whole helmet looks pretty “new”, especially the leather inside
- The helmet has no leather chin strap but a schuppenkette
- On the right side, there is the cockade of Wuerttemberg, on the left side there is the Prussian cockade???
Please have a look at the pictures, too:
http://www.vogesenkaempfe14-18.de/pickelhaube" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So what do you say? Am I the proud owner of a fake? Any help appreciated. Please excuse my bad English!
Thanks in advance!
Best regards from Germany!!
Alex
Here´s a brief explanation:
- The helmet isn´t made out of leather, I think the corpus is made out of “blech”
- The spike can be removed
- The visor is green inside, the nackenschirm red inside
- At the inner side of the nackenschirm you can find a stamp 1918
- The whole helmet looks pretty “new”, especially the leather inside
- The helmet has no leather chin strap but a schuppenkette
- On the right side, there is the cockade of Wuerttemberg, on the left side there is the Prussian cockade???
Please have a look at the pictures, too:
http://www.vogesenkaempfe14-18.de/pickelhaube" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So what do you say? Am I the proud owner of a fake? Any help appreciated. Please excuse my bad English!
Thanks in advance!
Best regards from Germany!!
Alex