Very nice hard to find Degan Bob. EXCELLENT photo and here is why:
The Sachsen Ulanen had a peculiar habit after 1910 of wearing numbered straps on the Dunkelblau Ulanka in lieu of epaulettes for the three Sachsen Ulanen Regts. Photographs of this pattern show that only numbers were worn, never...
Ta-Ta! Success!
Up till 05:00 a few nights here trying to find a fix, so it was fantastic to see reports coming in from around the world that it now loads. We are back.
Thanks everyone for the encouragement and updates. I am privileged to be a part of this wonderful collecting community...
Thank you for everyone who has emailed to tell me that Kaiser’s Bunker is off the net. All of the HTML I wrote myself using two fingers 25 years ago, and now that old HTML is coming back to haunt me.
I’m trying to save it, and there could be a fix from my server, but unfortunately it will be...
Here is an a Preussen sand-casted Adler adopted in 1842. This is the type of Adler with the large head and Schwarzenegger arms. This helmet eagle has been sand-cast so it lacks cut and file marks on the edges. The muted detail is not even close to the later die-stamped eagles.This Adler has...
8.JzP wore a gilt eagle on black Metalhelm with Tombak fittings including chinscales. The Dragoner eagle wasn’t Tombak. More
Please excuse the shameless plug but I am looking for a JzP with silver fittings.
It was still worth looking wasn’t it? Just be lucky it didn’t have a stamp
MADE IN INDIA
But you would know that by this point. Again congratulations Steve on a rather difficult fur hat to find.
Very nice helmet. I have had a few Garde Adler where the Garde star seem to be brass. Possibly a slightly lower amount of tin in the mix? Inside it looks brass, outside like Neusilber. So yes you could replace it, but it could be the original that has aged and the brass is predominant? I let...