My First of 2020

[Arran]

I was very pleased to get this one, and will go into its significance and interesting construction in another thread, but for now, here is my new helmet of the mounted escort of President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico:

 

[pickelhauben]

What a cool helmet !!

 

[badener]

Impressive Arran! =D>

 

[Zebedeus]

Stunning piece Arran. Congrats.

 

[Peter_Suciu]

Wow! I never even saw that at the show. My wife actually was chronicling impressive finds from the show for Military Trader magazine. I wish we would have known as that would have made the list! Thank you for sharing.

 

[stuka f]

Great helmet.
Well done.
One om my grales is to find anything related to the Belgian Legion who fought some Mexican battles in 1864 and 1865.
The only thing I managed to find so far are buttons to a tunic...

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

That is so cool, congrats!

James

 

[Arran]

Hi Peter- the helmet wasn't at the show, but obtained from a collector. Thanks for the comments; I really love these Mexican helmets!

 

[ww1czechlegion]

Hi Arran,

Congratulations on finding this beautiful and very rare helmet!

Best Wishes,

Alan

 

[Nacuaa]

I'll be very interested to see your analysis. Thank you for posting this.

 

[b.loree]

Congrats Aaron, that is a really cool piece! Is the liner similar to the typical German model? I would also really like to get one of these Mexican wappen for my collection one day.

 

[JohnM]

Ooooh!!! What an extraordinary find Alan!!! Congratulations!!! Can't wait to see all the details on your other thread!

John

 

[Peter_Suciu]

There is some serious history with that one I bet.