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I think here you will find the information you are looking for: https://www.pickelhaubes.com/xf/threads/imperial-german-helmet-and-uniform-reference-books.16470/ https://www.kaisersbunker.com/pe/ https://historien-kabinett.de/Pickelhaube https://pickelhauben.net/articles/

You are welcome. Property helmet means that it wasn’t purchased by the army but privately by a soldier. Officers, one-year volunteers and non-commissioned officers had to buy their own stuff, while the stuff of the enlisted men was purchased in large quantities by the army. Is the eagle attached...

I would really like that. But then I wonder why there are similar M1849s that were made with yellow fittings? I don't believe that both colors were worn at any time. In my eyes, therefore, if the banner “1621” on an M1849 really existed, only one of these two helmets can be correct. Even if both...

The helmet is somewhat special. It looks like an M1860 field artillery helmet (definitely a property helmet), the wide and curved chinscales were only worn by mounted units from 1860. The officer's spike and the stars don't really belong to an enlisted man's helmet, but the visor trim clearly...

That sounds plausible, but in this case, however, the helmet fittings would have to be gold, since the LIR115 didn‘t wear silver fittings before January 25, 1897. Anyway, the helmet undoubtedly looks old, so it could have been worn at a re-enactment event like this. On the photo it was a...

I tried it once to sew a helmet, it's harder than it looks. I admire our restorers very much 👍

Very interesting. Congratulations and thank you for sharing :)

Welcome to the forum :)

Welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing this beautiful sword :)

Thank you Frank, I‘m looking forward to see your helmet too :) Zeb, your helmet is fine. But instead of chinscales made of tombac, nickel silver chinscales were probably used, which were then gilded. This explains why they now look silver at some points. But if you look closely, the silver...

You're right, Tony. I thought I was seeing traces of silver on the chinscales because I was fooled by a later book of uniform knowledge. In it the chinscales were shown as silver. But according to the clothing regulations of 1868, the emblem and fittings of the Guard Pioneers were made of nickel...

A wonderful helmet, Piotr, congratulations. Even the Liner strap seems to be original 🤩

I think so too. There are still traces of a silver coating on chinscales, eagle or visor trim.

Thank you very much Tony and Zeb. Also for the photos of your M1867 Zeb, it’s is a fantastic helmet in wonderful condition. I love it and think the more photos of different helmets of the same helmet type the better. It‘s a very valuable archive for beginners and advanced collectors.

Thank you my friend ☺️

Thank you very much :)

Thank you Amy :)

Thank you all for your kind words 🙏 :) 🙏 It was offered on ebay and normally I didn't want to buy a helmet at the moment. But I had at least to make an offer for such a rare helmet. I was surprised that the seller accepted it immediately, but then I thought that it was a scam because only...

Dear fellow forum members, today I'd like to introduce my latest find, which I'm very happy about 🤩 It's a very rare and well-preserved Prussian M1867 enlisted man's helmet, which is completely original to my knowledge. I have seen Saxon, Baden, Wurttemberg and even Saxon duchy helmets on the...

Sorry that I answer for Tony, but there are traces of black paint on some edges. If you look closely at the "H" or the "f", for example, the black paint is just gone today.