First love is the BEST. My father brought me my first Pickelhaube in 1963 when he visited family in Germany. He told me his stories of great parades with horses, armor and shiny helmets. I still have it along with his toy kurassier helmet and armor from 1910.
This is Randy Trawnik. I am an old collector and co-owner of Age of Kings Militaria. We have this Saxe-Coburg-Gotha police helmet on our website.
https://ageofkingsmilitaria.com/imperial-saxe-coburg-gotha-police-commander-pickelhaube
I also am helping another collector sell his collection...
I have a Guard Pioneer Officer helmet with Deaths Head device. I got this from the estate of an old collector who passed away many years ago. Although I feel most of the helmets of this type are not genuine, I feel mine is. It has been examined by a number of fellow collectors who all feel it...
This is an amazing film record from a Chicago based news organization that visited Germany shortly after the start of the war in August 1914. Great real action pictures of uniforms, helmets and personages of the early war. Starting at 1hour and 15 minutes their are films of eastern front...
I recently purchased a silver trimmed Prussian black plumed enlisted mans helmet. It is complete with M1 chinscales and is all untouched. The problem is the markings in the back visor. I do not understand what unit it is. Any help out there: VAV inside a cartouche and then the date 1911...