Prussian Inf. EM M1895 Pickelhaube with Chinscales
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They do not belong on that helmet. They are Garde flat chinscales that someone has stuck on a Line Inf Regt Pickelhaube to "enhance it". Scales are worth as much as the helmet without them.
RON said:
Eh? :scratch: What is "M18"?
Usually the only way that a helmet fitting "probably" is wartime, is if they are zinc.
RON
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I meant an M1800s (last 2 digits unknown to me but probably post 91 because of the M91 fittings) or rather wartime issue chinscales...
What I'm actually trying to figure out is how can one tell a Prussian Officer Inf. Pickelhaube M1915--like the one on Kaiser's Bunker--from a former model (e.g. M1897) just by looking at pictures?
What I'm actually trying to figure out is how can one tell a Prussian Officer Inf. Pickelhaube M1915--like the one on Kaiser's Bunker--from a former model (e.g. M1897) just by looking at pictures?
RON said:
You cannot tell if the spike is a removable M15 on an officer's just by looking, but you can tell immediately by looking at the chinscale posts.
On previous officer Pickelhaubes, the chinscales were held onto the shell with split-brad rosettes. On the M1915 officer Pickelhaube, the rosettes are faux (false) and pressed into the first scale. Behind the faux rosette is a M1891 chinstrap mount. To keep the chinscales on the leather backing there are three rivets; you will never see these on other officer chinscales. In period photographs, these three rivets are the only way to visually identify an officer's Pickelhaube as being an M1915.
RON said:
Standard issued Mannschaften M91 chinscales.