pickelhauben from South America

joerookery

joerookery

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It is a great privilege to announce that a Chilean collector named Ricardo Jara Franco
Has completed an article that resides on my site. This fills a huge gap as we all know little about these modern pickelhauben. This is all the work of Ricardo I simply transferred into my format. All the praise should go to Ricardo and any fault of the syntax is mine alone. Thank you Ricardo for doing this!

http://www.pickelhauben.net/articles/South%20America.html

I also put this out to people on helmet mailing list-if you wish to be added to the list please let me know.
 
Wonderful article. Thanks for sharing it with us. Let Senor Franco that he did a great job. I am going to throw in my 2 cents here and show my Chilean Army Officer 2nd Pattern. Perhaps Senor Franco can tell us why they used a Jag zu Pferde type helmet. I am inclined to think they used it for calvary as well? Also here is my Argentine 1908 Officers Pickelhaube.

John

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I am posting this for Franco.

John,

Thank you for your kind words about the article. Regarding the pictures of the Chilean type Jag zu Pferde helmet, I congratulate to you, since you possess a rarity that is not at the present time in Chile (the last models were lost in the Military Historical Museum, a couple of decades ago due to fire). This helmet was employed by a Squadron of Cavalry while functioning as the presidential escort, of the Grenadier Regiment. These were only used for big ceremonies of State between 1900 and 1930. Fig. D shows the helmet.
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It was not employed by other cavalry units. In Chile the cavalry used a pickelhaube with silver metal fittings. Between 1900 and 1905, the cavalry used a leather helmet with a small condor on top of the helmet as shown in Fig. A - for parade - and Fig. C for daily service. Starting in 1905, the cavalry used a spike like the helmet in Fig. B.

From 1940 to the present, this squadron maintains the old uniform of the Regulation of 1940 (O.C. N° 89, April 11, 1940) for troops as in - Fig F -, and for officers up to 1986 as in Figure E. Note the presidential badge to the right side, at the height of the fifth button.
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Enclosed is a picture of the Regiment of Chivalry N° 2 " Cazadores " during maneuvers of 1913, and a current picture of the Squadron Escorts.
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This is Joe again. Maybe John & Peter would let me incorporate their helmets into Franco's article along with his answer?? :?
 
"This is Joe again. Maybe John & Peter would let me incorporate their helmets into Franco's article along with his answer??"

Joe, by all means please feel free to use my pictures any way you please.

I'm glad Franco was able to identify it. I guess it can be considered a semi "Garde du Korp" helmet. Now to find the Condor!
 
I finally made the updates! The English only speakers have a lot to be thankful for here. Thanks guys!
 
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