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Hi Gary, Thank you for showing. The markings do not look original to me, all the same size and font, not what I have seen on my own helmets. I'm sorry that not all responses / opinions are what you would like to hear, but it's up to you to decide whether your item is original or not based on...

Has become quite common on the German Ebay as well, normal photos of normal units priced at 50 euros, around 75 euro with postage and tax. Luckily no photos that I felt I must have :) Regards, Lars

Hi Kai, Very nice post, and nice hat also :) I read his civilian status as "Kutscher", coachman. Regards, Lars

Hi David, Everything looks correct, well done! Regards, Lars

Hi, Congratulations, looks good to me, even though I'm no expert. Original shell with a lot of original colour remaining, 1917 steel ring liner with the correct cream-coloured chrome leather pads, held in place by the correct split pins (is the one at the back thicker than the other ones? hard...

Hi Coert, Fussartillerie is walking, so they have a vent. Regards, Lars EDIT: FAR means Feldartillerie 😀

Hi, Your intentions can be honest, but there are plenty out there who are not. An example of a fake I bought in the Somme region in France. I had my concerns about the originality due to the War Department arrow and the artisan grooves in the handle, but all the major and some of the minor...

In most of the photographic methods available at the time red appears much darker than blue.

That's quite a transformation. Scary to think that without the "before" pictures it would be hard to know just how much this piece has been messed with.

Hi, Welcome to the forum. Looks like a nice original "M16" Stahlhelm to me. Condition of the liner and the shell are similar, so probably never been tampered with / "improved" by a collector / dealer. The pins that hold the liner are correct, but the thicker pin should be at the back (so the...

The inside of the disk for the ball (visible on the picture of the inside of the helmet) seems to be painted grey, if that is true then I would think the whole helmet was grey at some point in time. However the paint looks nicely done, and painted grey metal also fits the grey / golden ball, so...

Did you manage to buy it? Regards, Lars

According to the 1903 Bekleidungsordnung § 40 B the Feldartillerie didn't have the vent, so imo the Feldartillerie-Regiment 22 marking fits the helmet type. The Feldartillerie typically marked with "FAR", and there was no Fußartillerie-regiment 22 in 1905 (nor in 1914) :) Regards, Lars

Wow, stunning, thank you for showing

And visible in the background a shiny new M18 cut-out helmet, not yet processed to look old. RED FLAG

In my eyes these look original, but what surprises me is the finish. With the voided crown I would say these are officer's Wappen, but the finish looks more like other ranks, painted rather than gilded. The process also seems more fitting for a Kammer item than a private purchase item. If the...

Good comparison :)

Truly a unique and wonderfull piece, Congratulations Dane!

Very nice to see such an old helmet with such a history 😀

Hi, I agree, but to me it doesn't seem to be stamped, rather that someone scratched the marking into the leather, compare the neat "107.R." stamp shown by Grabenmaxx to the stamp of the helmet in question. Hopefully I'm just seeing it wrong. Regards, Lars