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What an amazing picture series! Great find :eek: What does K.P. stand for, perhaps something like "Kraftfahrzeug-Park"? Kraftfahr-Abt. 505 was stationed in Jerusalem so I suppose that unit is meant.

Hehe good observation :D nevertheless I'll stick with the beer rather than the painting

Great picture and infos, as always! Here is the Page for less noble events, a speciality beer made by our Tegernsee brewery at certain occasions..

Looks like 2. Rheinisches Husaren-Regt. Nr.9, feldgrau to me. The charts at Kaisers Bunker are extremely helpful for identifying this sort of headgear: http://www.kaisersbunker.com/ht/farben/farben8b.htm

Actually I don't know many issue OR helmets without this. If it misses then it likely broke off because of the tensile stress, which is not uncommon.

> May I use the close-up picture in the article? Sure, use any pictures that you want. It was a lucky find, I thought it would be just YASHP (yet another scroll helmet picture) without any more details than we already know. You don't get a close look until the picture arrives..

I have no idea about the crosses. But the fact that they pose in civil cloths, with a few mixed rifles evidently picked together and placing the few military items they have as well visible in the front as possible would indicate to me that they are more like a home defense, showing off a bit...

Nice peace. I could imagine that this ship was one of only few that saw action in both world wars.

Some close-ups. Is that a plug too on the left helmet or part of the plate?

Very nice and incredibly clear stamping! Great history work too :D Yep the SMS Seydlitz took quite a pounding both at Jutland and the Dogger Bank. Returning from the battle, the ship had to drive backwards for some tine because heavy flooding had forced the bow below the water line.

Another one.. this picture shows the plugged holes and some details of the scroll. And again the GMGA guys seem to be fond of canes. No date, but strangely a lonesome post stamp of GMGA 248.

http://pickelhaubes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4034&highlight=paying

A nice 1869 Werder rifle too

Back from the dead, thank god. Pickelhaubes.com leaves a black hole in the internet when gone.

There is an explanation on the side and the date 28/6 1916, is it possible to enlarge?

I just stumbled over this old thread. There is a lot of information on the German Wikipedia site. They contribute it to the beer law as drakegoodman describes it ("es wird weitergesoffen", i.e. lets keep on drinking). I found the story quite interesting that Konteradmiral Ludwig von Reuter used...

Nice! Did you notice what appears to be an extra felt piece at the chin strap mounts similar to the Ohrenleder of leather helmets? This is a feature sometimes to be seen, but not very often. I cannot remember seeing it on a felt Tschapka yet.

We had a few comments about this helmet in this thread. This type is documented, although I do not have the original article any more. http://pickelhaubes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5809

Today this seems awkward but it did work against airplanes up to 30 kilometers away (at least the more elaborate versions). The famous movie "Hell's Angels" from 1930 also shows them being used. But as man-portable devices on the battlefield, it seems you would run into an enemy before you'd...

What an amazing find! Evidently they tried to locate enemies by sound, then using the eyepieces with the small peep hole sights allowed to narrow in the position. Acoustic location was used a lot in WWII in the AA role but this thing looks like an old topophone!