Uber Zahlmeister JR 92 !!!

[b.loree]

This helmet is beyond "Rare" I had no clue that such a beast even existed. Thanks to member S. Mcfarland for sharing one of the pieces in his collection.

Steve writes: "By the way
my helmet , the I R 92 Paymaster
I had to chase that down,
it changed hands between 3 people
before I could locate it and land it."

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

I almost crapped my pants when Steve sent those pictures to us. What a find!!

James

 

[edwin]

That certainly is a very nice helmet

Thanks for sharing!

Edwin

 

[mauihiu]

Wow!! =D>

 

[Adler]

Doeffff... Doeffff again! Just fell twice of my chair and crawled back up again... AMAZING!

Adler

 

[ww1czechlegion]

Wow, what an amazing, beautiful, and rare helmet!

Congratulations Steve on tracking it down and acquiring it! =D> :bravo:

Best Regards,

Alan

 

[poniatowski]

Pretty darned cool! Any photos of the liner?

Ron

 

[argonne]

Hi Gents,

I remember that H. Weitze had one for sell a few years ago.....Hoping this is not this one, because it was totally bogus and changed hands a few times because buyers did not want to keep it :lol:

Philippe

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

Not the same one, Steve has had this in his collection for years.

James

 

[b.loree]

Will see if Steve has pics of the liner.

 

[Spiker]

=D> =D> =D>

 

[Glennj]

Very interesting: The Braunschweig contingent (within the Prussian Army) was one of few in which the Zahlmeister did not wear the plain Prussian Beamten plate with the smaller eagle in the reverse colour, Baden, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg Strelitz being the others. The 1908 regulations still prescribed the Prussian eagle surmounted by the Brunswick star for the Zahlmeister. I have not found an introductory order for the replacement with the Totenkopf but presumably, if authorised, this happened at the same time as the entire IR 92 received this helmet decoration in 1912? As this was a contingent plate, then it would also have been worn by the Oberzahlmeister/Zahlmeister of Husaren-Regiment Nr. 17. Paul Pietsch's "Quartier- und Stammliste des deutschen Heeres 1914" still shows the plate with the Brunswick Star.

Regards
Glenn