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I'm going to post some pages with WW1 items from my collection. Hope you like them. Starting with steel helmets. I hope the text is readable.
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Some German WW1 Items
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Beautiful piece Johan and what a great pattern design ( a very early Keith Haring
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I love it
Cheers, Sander
).I love it
Cheers, Sander
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Yes its like a little piece of art indeed.
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Model 1915 ET62 “Square Dip” helmet. Eisenhuettenwerke Thale A.G., Thale /Harz. The very rare first batch of WW1 German steel helmets dating from late 1915; with a distinctive sharper corner or dip to the peak. This is a size 62 example. Leather pads are complete but without the cushions inside. Refurbished during the war. The helmet has a couple of small drag rips to the string holes. Each chinstrap mount is present. The helmet received according the 1918 regulation, a three-tone camo finish with black dividing lines. The inside has a few random splashes of white and red paint from having been in a shed or garage most probably.
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Spiked Helmet Cheveauleger and Bavarian Artillery, EM., dated 1915, made in size 54 by Hans Remer Neu-Ulm.
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Model 1907 Feldmütze Baden with a rare camo cover for the red cap band, which has a reenforced area using field-grey cloth around the cap cockade. Dated 1915 and marked for the XIV Army Clothing Depot.
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German pre-war dunkelblau model 1895 Schirmmütze from Infanterie-Regiment Hamburg (2. Hanseatisches) Nr. 76. for other rank or NCO's. Lining has nicely visible regimental stamp 76 R, 1912. Signs of general wear in few places. The cap has very rare original sewn Hamburg cockade.
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Model 1916 Steel Helmet with chinstrap made by Koerting & Mathiesen Leutsch /Leipzig, marked K&M, in size 68.
First type thick leather liner band. The helmet was been refurbished and re-painted at the outside and interior edges with thick field-grey paint, brush strokes are clearly visible. The question is whether or not it’s a wartime rebuild repaint. The paint is very old and has a lot of patina. Usually a rebuilt helmet will have a painted stencil size in the skirt interior, and there seems to be no evidence of it. Some paint appears on the chinstrap fittings, so the liner is already part of the helmet for a long time. Either a WW1 refurbished helmet, or some sort of Freikorps era or early Reichswehr repaint? It is speculation of course, but still an extremely rare helmet nonetheless. K&M only produced these size 68 helmets in Leipzig, and in very limited numbers. Germany made ca 30,000 or so square dip helmets and they seem more common than K&M 68’s. Perhaps K&M produced 5,000, 10,000 or 20,000 helmets, the numbers made were lost in history.
First type thick leather liner band. The helmet was been refurbished and re-painted at the outside and interior edges with thick field-grey paint, brush strokes are clearly visible. The question is whether or not it’s a wartime rebuild repaint. The paint is very old and has a lot of patina. Usually a rebuilt helmet will have a painted stencil size in the skirt interior, and there seems to be no evidence of it. Some paint appears on the chinstrap fittings, so the liner is already part of the helmet for a long time. Either a WW1 refurbished helmet, or some sort of Freikorps era or early Reichswehr repaint? It is speculation of course, but still an extremely rare helmet nonetheless. K&M only produced these size 68 helmets in Leipzig, and in very limited numbers. Germany made ca 30,000 or so square dip helmets and they seem more common than K&M 68’s. Perhaps K&M produced 5,000, 10,000 or 20,000 helmets, the numbers made were lost in history.