Price frenzy

9

911car

Well-known member
Some of us stressed that basic - not even nice - M15 models had recently fetched ridiculously high prices. Here we have a mundane, rather boring prussian helmet already over $ 1000,00...
150072557906
 
Scary - This one looks as if its been worked over- brass visor trim seems reworked and the spike base studs look to flat with wrong kind of prongs. Under side of back visor looks 'scrubbed' or something. Where is the "pearlring" the guy is so proud to describe????
Chris
 
Something here doesn't sit well with me. One of the higher bidders has just bought coins from ebay in the past. The other one has purchased just one Arty helm and by the looks of it did so at a premium.

Som could this be a case of just 2 Ebay ego's going at it or something more foul afoot?

John
 
$ 1263.00 !!! 40 bids, the winning one by an outsider. There were half a dozen better M95 models on ebay at the same time.
Nihil admirari...
Bruno
 
Try this link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150072557906&ru=http://collectibles.search.ebay.com:80/150072557906_1903-13_W0QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfclZ1QQfgtpZQQfposZ22207QQfromZR2QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQlopgZQQsacatZ583QQsadisZ200QQsaprchiZQQsaprcloZQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs_W0QQfviZ1

Reservist1
 
JR92, give me your e address and I will forward the post to you. You don't want to miss that...
Bruno
 
Absolutely insane. I would never have believed that any Prussian M95 messed with or not, could fetch such a price. Too many fools with too much cash to burn! Brian
 
One comment regarding the spike base brads on this piece...there are originals of these that are flatter ie. "less domed". There are also older brads that have a hat like profile like a "rest" symbol in musical notation. We also encounter screw post brads on older helmets and the prongs on more modern ones can be thinner in width than what we normally see.
On officer helmets, generally of war time manufacture (zinc fittings with gold wash) I have examples where they used spike base stars with thin split prongs instead of the usual screw posts and square nuts. So be aware fellow collectors, that there are a few variations out there that are totally correct and original. Brian
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top