Swedish M1845 Infantry OR helmet

[J.LeBrasseur]

Another great piece that just came in today, I normally focus on the Imperial German helmets, but this guy was to good to pass up.

M1845 Swedish underofficer helmet.

Love these older helmets.

James

 

[b.loree]

Uniquely rare and in amazing condition! Congratulations James, very hard to understand how it ended up in Minnesota USA but very cool!!

 

[Peter B]

Looks really sturdy and very well made. Interesting with the unit number on the side too.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm II]

Very nice piece, I don't think these foreign "one-off" helmets get enough respect for what they are, they are very neat. Congratulations on this piece.

 

[ww1czechlegion]

Uniquely rare and in amazing condition! Congratulations James, very hard to understand how it ended up in Minnesota USA but very cool!!

Minnesota has a large Swedish immigrant population. Without knowing the back story from James, I can understand the possibility that immigrants may have brought this with them to Minnesota.

I used to live about half an hour distance from New Ulm, MN, and I knew of German military things that were brought with immigrants to the U.S. An old collector friend grew up in New Ulm, and he also told me stories of things he saw with German ancestry families there.

Best Wishes,

Alan

P.S. As a side note, here is a photo of the old Post Office Building in New Ulm, Minnesota. The building now serves as the Brown County Historical Society Museum.





Hermann Monument in New Ulm, MN.








American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis:

 

[ww1czechlegion]

Fantastic helmet James, congratulations!

Best Wishes,

Alan

 

[Bobted]

Really cool I love these old helmets . Rob

 

[JzPf]

A beautiful helmet in great condition! Congrats, James
Cheers
Dennis

 

[Amybellars]

Congrats on your nice find. Very nice helmet

 

[HatEnjoyer]

I like it! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Sandmann]

Congratulations James, also a very beautiful helmet

 

[John Josef]

Congratulations nice

 

[k bandow]

Any of these old pattern Pickelhaubes, regardless of country, are worthy of collecting and preservation. Beautiful! My wife, who is part Swedish, would love it.

 

[Nacuaa]

Very nice! Nationalism fever of the 1848 Revolutions affected the northern nations. Considering the emerging military ambitions of Prussia and the Austo-Hungarian empire there were calls for Scandinavian unity despite the fact that the kings of those countries had their own factional issues and mini-wars. A Swedish army contingent was sent to Denmark to monitor a temporary ceasefire during the Schleswig-Holstein War in August 1949. As far as we know they didn't take part in any battles. However, thousands of Swedes also organized "volunteer" units that did fight for Denmark. We don't have a lot of information on uniforms or whether they appeared in spiked helmets however.