Saxon helmets harder to find?

[KAGGR#1]

I think there are many reasons.After 1945, no one wanted anything to do with military items anymore. If the Russians caught someone, they were likely sent to a penal camp or Siberia. These items were thrown away. During the GDR era, military items were sought after by the Stasi and sold to the West via Schalk Kolotkowski. Large collections were confiscated under the guise of tax evasion. After the fall of the Wall, Dutch peddlers talked people out of the rest for very little money. the small remainder that is still there is firmly in the hands of collectors ;-)

There were West German dealers who rented a hotel after the fall of the Wall and made purchases there. I know of a case from Sigmar near Chemnitz. The dealer had piles of uniforms in the hotel lobby and crates of medals and awards. For 100 DM, you could get almost anything. You could clear out the attics for that. After the fall of the Wall, there was a gold rush atmosphere.

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What you wrote is well understood
Nice post
Thanks
Steve

 

[festwagner]

I made the same observation with Uberzug. I found lots of Uberzug but only a few Saxon Uberzug.

 

[Mild_Turkey]

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I was just looking at an overview with the number of inhabitants each German state of the Kaiserreich had. I noticed Sachsen had twice as much inhabitants as Baden and Württemberg (about 4.8 against 2.1 and 2.4 million).

Since I see Saxon Haubes much less frequent than the other 2, I found this quite striking. Does anyone has an idea what the reason could be?
Or am I mistaken and do you think you don't found them less often at all

I've heard some anecdotes from older collectors that before the fall of the Berlin Wall Sachsen helmets were pretty hard to come by. Going off of this, I'd reason that Sachsen helmets didn't have as much of an opportunity to come to America, since many GI's picked them up as souvenirs while stationed in post ww2 Germany.

 

[bolle]

There are also many many saxon collectors in France. Saxon Military items - especially fieldgrey pieces - consistently achieve absolute top prices

 

[CLOVIS 57]

My personal experience, ranked in ascending order of difficulty for the large Kingdoms or Duchies (Infantry Regiments):
---Prussia.

---Bavaria.

---Saxony.

---Baden.

---Württemberg.

---Hesse.
Next come the Länder with 1 or 2 regiments.