another great find, congrats!
Here is a experimental bavarian alpine troops' helmet. We know only four lightly different examples in the world.
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I was just looking over this fantastic collection of helmets and wanted to share a post card from my collection showing something very similar to this style of Bavarian Helm that was issued to Bavarian Machine-gun units
Wonderful post card, John Josef.The so-called "scroll helmets" are not common to see nowaday.
The card translates to Machine-gun detachment on the march ( New Uniform )
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I was just looking over this fantastic collection of helmets and wanted to share a post card from my collection showing something very similar to this style of Bavarian Helm that was issued to Bavarian Machine-gun units
Here is a bavarian scroll helmet.
The card translates to Machine-gun detachment on the march ( New Uniform )
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Sorry no neck shirt in my one. However this accessory was a fabric flap fixed arounds the helmet body with a small leather chinstrap.Do you happen to have a side view ? I'm really curious to see the neck skirt and how it attached .
Great collection by the way
I will admit to seeing them and not knowing what they were in my youth. I used to pass them by because I thought they were not Military. I wish I knew then what I know now, but that part of life. There were no really good reference books and certainly no internet.