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Yes, thank you. That's the one I needed. I can't even eat lunch after looking at that indian abortion.

Could someone please explain to me why people are bidding on the crap the seller schwarzbor offers? http://www.ebay.de/itm/GERMAN-EMPIRE-MILITARIA-WWI-PRUSSIA-PREUSSEN-visor-hussar-Braunschweig-skull-/151912053299?hash=item235ea9fa33:g:sSYAAOSwxN5WahC1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return...

GREAT to see you back! And with the best issue EM shako I have ever seen :lol:

Those look great! Congratulations. :bravo:

When did pickelhaubes.com become an auction house? :-P

Look at the eagles and use this list http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/New/ulan0.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Those are Guard Ulan.

You can find both. What is important, is that if it has a round base, it is correctly marked to Hesse artillery.

Rubbing alcohol. Only a bit on a cotton pad or ball, wipe it off, do it again. Mold + alcohol = dead mold.

Seems the overlapping feathers has more to do with the helmet plate maker than anything.

Actually, the skull belongs in the garbage. Its a copy you can get any day on german ebay for under $10.

So all the millions of Ersatz felt Pickelhaubes were for camouflage? Even though a helmet cover was mandatory on all helmets? :-" I handled this at the SOS and it is so bizzare, some people actually have convinced themselves its real.

It is a Model 1860 with M91 chin strap posts. That would indicate it was perhaps refurbished and issued to the Landsturm at the outbreak of WW1. Don't forget that guard Jager battlaion and guard Shutzen battalion and I think also guard Train wore shakos with the guard star.

Excellent example.

Ed all Saxon Garde Reiter cockades are serrated. Its the pickelhaube cockades that are in question. Very nice Saxon helmet. Why do you say "infamous"?

Garbage. :-x

I am sure that sold fast. He was Fallschirmjäger! :lol:

I have learned a lot on this thread. :lol:

Ron I did not know, so I emailed New Brunswick and he replied. Tom, I can see where an inexperienced collector might have thought this was Pionier, but the silver chinscales are a dead give away that it is not. All Beamte in silver fittings appear to have worn a wee Preußen Adler Wappen in the...

That is exactly what it is. Unterzahlmeister. Wonderful pickelhaube. Pioneer missing the reserve cross... :laughing6:

Forgot to add that it is an M1895 helmet plate. Not an M1871.