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A very good book with some very interesting dates and wonderful photos 🤩

For me it looks like shoulder strap from a „Hauptmann“ and I see the Regiment-No. 22 (I have copied the pic for a direct comparison).

Regarding the position of the banner, I could imagine that these were sometimes positioned a bit acc. to personal taste. Officers seemed to have more freedom in this respect. I know of similar examples with the star on the eagle's chest. Sometimes these were attached a little lower, which was...

Please let us see your final portrait ;)

Beautiful helmet and photos. Would like to see more :)

Awesome. Could you please send me the link of the picture for my archive?

Here are still good photos of his personal cuirass. Certainly also useful for your painting: https://www.bismarck-stiftung.de/2019/10/11/der-doppelkuerass-ausruestung-2-3/ https://www.bismarck-stiftung.de/2023/05/09/kleiderordnung-mit-kalkuel/ https://www.bismarck-biografie.de/quellen/geschenke...

I think Bismark last wore an officer helmet M1867. Here are photos of one of the last, or even the last meeting, of Kaiser Wilhelm II. with Otto von Bismarck in Friedrichsruh, on March 26, 1895: https://kenniscentrumhuisdoorn.nl/en/collection/albums/a054 He definitely still has a fairly high...

Congratulations Francis, a really nice set :)

Congratulations, a nice helmet (y)

In my opinion it may be that there were special spikes for Generals, but as I wrote there were no rule for it. So many makers may have used a special spike design for it, but if a simple officer's spike is used, it is not necessarily a fake or modified helmet.

Congratulations, a beautiful hat 👍🏼

I would say it is a Bavarian transitional model M1914/15, shortly before the M1915 was fully developed. The emblem seems to be the smaller officer's emblem, which was introduced in February 1914. A really great and interesting helmet that shows that helmets have been developed step by step (y).

In my eyes the helmet is original. The finish of spike and the rest of the helmet match 100%. The fact that there was a special spike for generals is also only a guess that collectors have made on the basis of various helmet comparisons. As far as I know, there is no original source that...

Love the photo, thank you for sharing :)

Beautiful display Tony, congratulations :)

Beautiful sword, thank you for sharing :)

Wonderful helmet, thank sou for sharing :)

I have seen such an attachment before, it was a colonial helmet if I remember right.

I have one in silver, really pretty :)