TacHel
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G'day gents! Long time!
I found an incredible little museum in the Eastern Townships (near Sherbrooke Quebec) with a small but still quite impressive military collection spanning nearly 2 centuries. It’s in Knowlton, a small town of barely 5,000 inhabitants. Believe it or not, this museum houses one of only 7 surviving WW1 German Fokker D-VIIs!!
Anyhow, they have a few pickelhaubes and helmets, see the attached picture.
Here’s the prob, I’m trying to help them put the helms back in order. Here’s my quite amateurish assessment, tell me if you agree:
-The cuirassier’s helmet at center has the spike of the helm at left and the wappen of the helm at right.
Is my asessment plausible?
If I'm right, I have cockades and chin straps for all 3, I also have a proper wappen for the cuirassier’s helmet… The prob is, where on Earth can one find a spike top for a cuirassier’s helmet? Am I wrong in my thinking that they differ from the spikes on the leather helmets? IMHO, they look narrower and not quite as curved.
I'm really shooting from the hip here and welcome, actually, eagerly await your input.
I found an incredible little museum in the Eastern Townships (near Sherbrooke Quebec) with a small but still quite impressive military collection spanning nearly 2 centuries. It’s in Knowlton, a small town of barely 5,000 inhabitants. Believe it or not, this museum houses one of only 7 surviving WW1 German Fokker D-VIIs!!
Anyhow, they have a few pickelhaubes and helmets, see the attached picture.
Here’s the prob, I’m trying to help them put the helms back in order. Here’s my quite amateurish assessment, tell me if you agree:
-The cuirassier’s helmet at center has the spike of the helm at left and the wappen of the helm at right.
Is my asessment plausible?
If I'm right, I have cockades and chin straps for all 3, I also have a proper wappen for the cuirassier’s helmet… The prob is, where on Earth can one find a spike top for a cuirassier’s helmet? Am I wrong in my thinking that they differ from the spikes on the leather helmets? IMHO, they look narrower and not quite as curved.
I'm really shooting from the hip here and welcome, actually, eagerly await your input.