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in the last Christmas holliday I visited the " musee de la grande guerre" in Meaux, near Paris, location of the battles of the marne in 1914 and 1918. It is listed as the biggest WW1 museum in Europe, and it is very much worthwhile visiting. It has a beautiful collection (with a fantastic...

As promised yesterday some photos in daylight

Could you please send some pictures?

as I just showed you my EM and officer Tschapka, and Ulanka UR 14, I would like to add a story, The officer I acquired 20 yeas ago and paid for it, but the EM was a bargain, with a special story... in april 2013, one of my (now adult) girls was climbing as a hobby, as we have our holiday home...

Welcome to the forum! Very nice helmets! I love those Adrian’s!!! Veuillez communiques en anglais parce pas toute le monde parlement le francais, il y a des Bon moyens pour traduire en ligne

best wishes for 2025 to you all!

as promised today I photographed my ulanka and cap, but alas, too late to profit from natural daylight, so in artificial light... also will add photo's of tschapka's EM and officer (see difference in plates, the EM plate is regular prussian officer with bandeaus soldered to it whereas the...

what a beautiful uniform and Tschapka, I a very fond of cavalry headgear and Tschapka and klanka's specifically, so like Charles said above, I looked at those uniforms a few times! (like many here especially the fieldgrey variant catches my attention, but the dunkelblau one is also a beauty)...

What a beautiful helmet, congratulations on your project!!

the second book a german price guide from 1978 about Pickelhaubes, really small reference book probably small dimension to stow away in your pockets to have it by hand when visiting a militaria fair Prices in Deutsche Mark 1979 (I was born in 1971 and started collecting headgear when a...

When rearranging the books in my library I found these two books full of Pickelhaubes from the seventies: first the collection from te royal army museum in Brussels, a book in the three official languages from Belgium (Dutch French en german), with Photo's an explications for each helmet most in...

Got them both of course… Think they are there or in our holiday home

Thanks but most reference books are in another library on the landing first floor, you will recognise a lot of the titles a they are favourites among forum members

Being a pickel collector for 35 years, that is the most heard reaction, but since I constructed a showcase in our living room reactions tend to be somewhat nicer, but then again most people don’t even see it when they come to our house the first time

Sorry to hear, wish you all

This book, by Brian Calkins published in 1990 was one of my first reference books, bought more than 30 years a ago when I was stil a student, and started collecting. Having evolved in collecting over the last 35 years, this book is now to limited in its information, it lacks details, but I...

by the way, it is not soldered to the Kurrass, I think the cross is pinned through the kurrass, see these photo's of the inside (I can't check it, as it is on an model-torso), but looking closely at it from the outside it is not soldered

I have one on a kurras