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What do you think of this? The back writing just tells My gun (Mein Geschütz), June 1916, in Macedonia. Is this really an artillery unit or just a group of GMGA members that took over a captured or otherwise deserted gun? The uniforms look like the typical GMGA style, allthough most of the men...

That scene looks more like an officer's dream of how the grat war would be rather than a real event. Is this Inception II?

Wow 296€, what a price for 32-page printed booklet! When I first posted the price was 91€ and I thought it was way too high.

Hi, I stumbled over this really interesting set of pictures that show the process of helmet making. If you scroll down a bit you can see the leather shaping, the laquering oven and the mounting of the fittings. The price is a bit above what I would pay, but the pictures are well worth a...

Very nice find! I hope for the guy that he did not have his chin strap fastened when the fragment struck his helmet. By the way, you could change the cockades around, state to the left.

Same idea, note the integrated candle holder on the forehead to counter frequent power breakdowns.. :D

Astonishing! If I would have seen a helmet on ebay with that liner, and without the closeups, I would have backed off. I hope Karl did not get in trouble for the trade.

Some saxons were not satisfied with pointy spikes alone but preferred to display extra-large stars es well..

Joe, from what I was told all Bavarian Geb-MG.Abtl. carried the uniforms of the infantry. Maybe I can find out the source of that, and whether it maybe only concerns the later batch of units with numbers below 210. The should flap seems to be the only hard evidence at the moment. All other...

No luck at translating, Gustaf already found about everything I could read. However, I was informed that the white rim of the shoulder flap indicates a Bavarian unit. Evidently the Bavarian mountain units wore infantry uniforms which had this detail. The Bavarian geb. MG-Abt. 248 was assigned...

What gets me is the strange combination. The Edelweiß would indicate that he was a participant in the mountain war. I cannot imagine that it was issued that way, perhaps a personal souvenir after he was reassigned to another unit? The neckflap quite surely means he was heading for the Balkans...

Now that is one heck of a rare picture. The type of the front plate seems to be different than on the pictured helmet - smaller curve radius and no visible scroll. The absence of the neck flap seems OK to me, they would get lost over time. There is a lot of confusion about that train unit, the...

You don't know the Green Lantern? He is one of the goody-good superheroes but I find that your spike gives him a bit more edged appearance.

Extremely cool condition! And I know just the right guy to wear it.

Great picture and once again with walking cane. They must have issued a special M15 cane pattern to these troops so many of them use one :D

Great picture! Looks like E.M.G.A. 9 Spandau to me, and then in the address line 4th company of Inf Reg. 29, Ersatz Batl. Trier.

From what I can tell.. Mein liebes Weibchen, sende dir hier eine Karte von dem Moment?, da unser Oberleutnant nach dem Bahnhof ... wird. Er führte die vorletzte Schützenkompanie, wo ich auch dabei bin. Kaum das er die Stellung recht betretenhattem wurde er und ein Bursche von einer schweren...

There was a thread about such a well armed postman earlier.. I would not want to owe him a postage due! http://www.pickelhaubes.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2790

And then of course there were the lacquered felt helmets as war ersatz, made to resemble normal leather helmets as well as possible.

Yes thats an important detail too..