Interesting lots at Cowans Auction.
Also I did not know about stamps on the lions paw and testicles (ouch!).
I have one of these helmets as well and it has 32 on its delicate parts. Right paw is obscure unless it take it apart.
Apart from the pain a very useful way of descriminating the real thing from the numerous copies dont you think?.
No mention of these marks in Thomas Stubs's book either.
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/3460-460-Saxon-Garde-Reiter-Officer-M1907-Helmet-wit_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a3Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3911Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem400003702233QQitemZ400003702233
Saxon Garde Reiter Officer M1907 Helmet with Lion, with tombac body and double-step front and "lobster tail" rear visor, trimmed in nickel silver. Obverse with large officer's silver star and gilt Saxon coat of arms. Helmet is surmounted with a highly detailed, silver-plated Lion of Meissen with gilt monogram of Frederick Augustus Rex on shield, awarded to this unit only, in 1907, to be worn in place of spike for parades and state or gala occasions. Complete with national and state officer's large sized cockades, clover leafed rosettes, and leather-lined tombac chinscales. Officer's sweatband and brown head cloth lining, with no lining to front visor and evidence of black velvet to rear visor. Stamped with number 21 on lion's testicles and on reverse of monogram shield, and stamped 128 on the bottom, left rear paw.
The regiment began in Dresden in 1680 as the 1st Schweres Regiment and was the premier cavalry unit of the Saxon Army.
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/3445-445-Lot-of-Six-Imperial-German-Helmets-and-Two_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a3Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3911Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem400003702104QQitemZ400003702104
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/3455-455-Lot-of-Three-Prussian-Enlisted-Mens-Spiked_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a3Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3911Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem400003702181QQitemZ400003702181
Also I did not know about stamps on the lions paw and testicles (ouch!).
I have one of these helmets as well and it has 32 on its delicate parts. Right paw is obscure unless it take it apart.
Apart from the pain a very useful way of descriminating the real thing from the numerous copies dont you think?.
No mention of these marks in Thomas Stubs's book either.
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/3460-460-Saxon-Garde-Reiter-Officer-M1907-Helmet-wit_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a3Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3911Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem400003702233QQitemZ400003702233
Saxon Garde Reiter Officer M1907 Helmet with Lion, with tombac body and double-step front and "lobster tail" rear visor, trimmed in nickel silver. Obverse with large officer's silver star and gilt Saxon coat of arms. Helmet is surmounted with a highly detailed, silver-plated Lion of Meissen with gilt monogram of Frederick Augustus Rex on shield, awarded to this unit only, in 1907, to be worn in place of spike for parades and state or gala occasions. Complete with national and state officer's large sized cockades, clover leafed rosettes, and leather-lined tombac chinscales. Officer's sweatband and brown head cloth lining, with no lining to front visor and evidence of black velvet to rear visor. Stamped with number 21 on lion's testicles and on reverse of monogram shield, and stamped 128 on the bottom, left rear paw.
The regiment began in Dresden in 1680 as the 1st Schweres Regiment and was the premier cavalry unit of the Saxon Army.
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/3445-445-Lot-of-Six-Imperial-German-Helmets-and-Two_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a3Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3911Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem400003702104QQitemZ400003702104
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/3455-455-Lot-of-Three-Prussian-Enlisted-Mens-Spiked_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a3Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3911Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem400003702181QQitemZ400003702181