Khukri
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Born in Germany 1961
I was stationed in Germany 1981-1991. By then all the best was gone. No. Joke. No collecting Hauben back then...
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I was stationed in Germany 1981-1991. By then all the best was gone. No. Joke. No collecting Hauben back then...
Khukri
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Excellent! Love these!
KAGGR#1
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That book cost me a lot of money over the yearsJust received mine.
Steve
Khukri
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Ordered from Canada. And... Let us hope the Belgian Customs are merciful!
And NO the Belgian Customs we're not....they charged me more than I payed for the book....
-a few hours earlier today: the customs handled some books I ordered from the US...guess what...passed...free...Nada...nothing...
To be honest...I feared for the worst on this order....
And NO the Belgian Customs we're not....they charged me more than I payed for the book....
-a few hours earlier today: the customs handled some books I ordered from the US...guess what...passed...free...Nada...nothing...
To be honest...I feared for the worst on this order....
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yes, some errors in it for sure....
Khukri
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Early book. Probably one of the very first reference books in English and....überhaupt/at all. Errors included. 1965.
I don’t think Steve was referring to the errors. I think, like me, he wanted to buy everything in it.
my mistake! I agree for the year 1965 (year I was born) it was a great book which I have in my book collection. But like the Bowman books, there are errors as more information has come to light over the years.
James
KAGGR#1
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That is correct
and it got me started down this road for 55 years
for that I am very thankful
I have had collectors from Germany ; Belgium and Sweden visit me
that would not have happened if it were not for that little book
Steve
KAGGR#1
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Look at the early photos of the collections of Cliff B. Foster
and Walter E. Hartmann.
Steve
KAGGR#1
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I had a collector friend in Stockholm, Sweden. Jarl Hartze. Jarl owned a music store . He cut a path
several times thru Germany. I got letters from collectors in Germany they wrote that Jarl was buying
all the spiked helmets in site .At one time he 13 Garde du Corps helmets with eagle tops .
He had more than one Saxon Garde Reiter with lion top. Jarl had a man who worked for him at the music store .
This man worked on musical instruments for Jarl. He was also in charge of the Maintenace of Jarl's helmets.
Jarl came to visit me a couple of times . He was a vert sharing collector friend .
Maybe that is why there was not much left to select from in 1981 and after .
Steve
John Josef
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GardeUlan
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Sounds like a few people I know minus the Music Store of course
Sorry for the poor quality
I have the original B & W 8 X 10 photo
somewhere , but I can't locate it right now
this from one of Jarl's publication
years ago which I guess in it's way was a early pre computer world
a form of PH.com
We see Jarl seated in front of part of his helmet collection
He had a mixture of German , Russian and Swedish helmets
Jarl came to the USA and visited collectors over here
including myself .
One of the airlines did an article about Jarl in their magazine
It was titled "The Mad Hatter "
I wanted to remember Jarl
Steve
I have the original B & W 8 X 10 photo
somewhere , but I can't locate it right now
this from one of Jarl's publication
years ago which I guess in it's way was a early pre computer world
a form of PH.com
We see Jarl seated in front of part of his helmet collection
He had a mixture of German , Russian and Swedish helmets
Jarl came to the USA and visited collectors over here
including myself .
One of the airlines did an article about Jarl in their magazine
It was titled "The Mad Hatter "
I wanted to remember Jarl
Steve
Dear Steve,
There‘s a great post about him! Thanks to you!
Best wishes,
GardeUlan
KAGGR#1
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Thanks that you rememberedSorry for the poor quality
I have the original B & W 8 X 10 photo
somewhere , but I can't locate it right now
this from one of Jarl's publication
years ago which I guess in it's way was a early pre computer world
a form of PH.com
We see Jarl seated in front of part of his helmet collection
He had a mixture of German , Russian and Swedish helmets
Jarl came to the USA and visited collectors over here
including myself .
One of the airlines did an article about Jarl in their magazine
It was titled "The Mad Hatter "
I wanted to remember Jarl
Steve
Dear Steve,
There‘s a great post about him! Thanks to you!
Best wishes,
GardeUlan
That is a great photo of Jarl
He was a lot of fun
Thanks
Steve
Jeff R
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Steve - do you what became of Walter E. Hartmann's collection? Just found a nice copy of this book (which for some reason I didn't already have in my library), and I am pretty sure I have the Anhalt IR93 shown on page 30. Would love to know more.
KAGGR#1
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Jeff ;
IF you don't mind saying where or who you got your I R 93 from, I might can tell you more. When Walt passed away, his helmet collection
was willed to his son. Over the years the son would consign (or sell ) several helmets at a time to Stephen Wolfe of Wolfe-Hardin dealers.
This happened about the time of our S O S. Wolfe would bring the helmets to the S O S for sale. Age of Kings seemed to always
get first look at the helmets . I know that James LaB or his brother bought a Bavarian Uhlan officers helmet that was from the Hartmann
collection . Some rare helmets were kept by Wolfe for his own collection. As you know Wolfe - Hardin no longer do shows . I can't speak to the older Max shows , as I never went to them. At the S O S Weitze always checked to see what Wolfe had . I know Weitze bought some of
Hartmann's uniforms from Wolfe for resale. The release of Hartmann's helmets seemed to dry up after Wolfe-Hardin departed the shows.
What the son still has and where they might go, I no longer know.
Steve