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Bryan, I would absolutely like to know how you straightened your spike. I have attached close ups to detail how my spike is crushed on one side.

Thank you Lars. I'll keep everyone posted. Today it's supposed to get up to 50° Fahrenheit here, so I'll be able to get out and get some good work done.

I looked up Schultz & Holdefleiss, and it was an art firm in Berlin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I recently acquired this 1916 Schultz & Holdefleiss Kurassier Pickelhaube. It was painted silver, and the spike, base, and wappen are painted a dark subdued gold color. I am in the process of removing the silver paint from the helmet, and will have to remove the gold paint from the spike...

Update: I found some older reproduction Tombak chinscales from the gentlemen at Ageofkings militaria. They routinely travel to Europe in search of unique Pickelhauben and parts. Here's my finished 8 JzP helm.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Here are current pictures.. I did some work on it today.

This is an excellent thread with great pictures! I recently procured a Schultz & Holdefleiss Kurassier helm dated 1916, which I am in the process of restoring. Someone had painted it silver, and the spike, base and front eagle, a subdued gold color. The spike is crushed on one side, as though...

Bryan, it is interesting that you have removed black paint from similar helmets as well. I've also removed it from ww1 and ww2 German stahlhelms, but I've also removed other weird colors such as bright green, red, and even chrome. Thank you for the kind words regarding the restoration work...

And the helmet currently.

And this is what the JzP looked like when I got it.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/185574516841?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=NOKwVlCbTbS&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=nqg34-olRZK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Sorry for the confusion... these are of the JzP helmet.. the previous pictures are of the Kurassier helm.

This is the helmet mid-restoration...

This is what the helmet looked like prior to beginning work on it.

Here is the original liner from the JzP helmet (I suspect regiments 1-7), and some photos of the ~85% restored helmet.

And these were during restoration.

This is what the Kurassier helmet marked 8 K looked like prior to restoration.

My third and final metalhelm is this Kurassier marked 8K on the rim. Someone had painted this one black, it had tan speckles on it, a lot of dents, and the spike has had been damaged and repaired.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185574516841?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=NOKwVlCbTbS&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=nqg34-olRZK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Here's a link that shows what the helmet looked like before I started my restoration.