Reserve Artillery-Officer

Sandmann

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Hello everybody,
I‘m very pleased to show you my latest find which finally arrives today :D
It‘s a „Landwehr“ Artillery-Officer Pickelhaube from around 1900. Unfortunately 2 star-bolts were missing when I bought it, but I have replaced it by 2 original bolts in similar color I have found. Now it is complete and I‘m very happy with it:
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Inside was a Noticesheet with „Please don‘t sell! Victor von Thumen, around 1900“, but fortunately for me the seller ignored it :wink:
I can’t confirm that it is the name of original owner of the Helmet, because on the inner side of the Helmetbody was a pencil note „No 197 / 9“ and I did‘t find a „Victor v. Thumen or Thümen“ in a Reserve-Artillery-Regiments with one of this Numbers.
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If somebody have an idea and these numbers would stand for something else than a Regiment or Bataillon, I would be happy for any suggestion which could clarify this conflict. To know the name of the wearer would be the icing on the cake :bravo:
 
That is a beautiful helmet Sandy, congratulations. The gilding on the fittings is still in excellent condition as is the interior! Well done. 👍
 
Another very nice addition to your collection Sandy!

Congratulations! :bravo:

Greetings, Coert. :)
 
Thank you all :)
It‘s my best piece and I love the finish of the canonball..seems someone could not withstand to touch it everyday :D
 
Sandy numbers in pencil written in a shell, usually are made by the helmet manufacturer, indicating shell size, height, width, or other indicators.

Very nice FAR :thumbleft:
 
Thank you all for your nice comments:)

Tony without Kaiser said:
Sandy numbers in pencil written in a shell, usually are made by the helmet manufacturer, indicating shell size, height, width, or other indicators.

That sounds like an explanation. Thank you very much for this information Tony. :bravo:
 
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