Totenkopf Husaren

[KAGGR#1]

Great TK photos! But not too much on TK found on schirmutze! How can we ID these TK’s? Here is mine! 2nd LH officer.

I would ask Tony S.
He is the go-to man on that subject
Steve

 

[Khukri]

I would ask Tony S.
He is the go-to man on that subject
Steve

Correct!

 

[KAGGR#1]

I will have to check this fine book. A chapter on these.

Francis
If you have the time
Please post what you find out
Steve

 

[Khukri]

Francis
If you have the time
Please post what you find out
Steve

I will check!

 

[b.loree]

I took my skull wappen with me and had Tony examine it. It is original and it is a private purchase/officer example of the model used 1815-1918. These are smaller than issued ones and have the 3 soldered prongs as shown in Al's and my photos at the beginning of this post.

 

[Khukri]

I will check!

My mistake: it is in this french book

 

[JPT]

 

[Khukri]

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A great example!

 

[Khukri]

-According to the study mine is #03 of 3 main patterns. Skull fully rests on the crossed femurs. And at the left of the picture: An oblong cut-out between both femurs.

 

[Khukri]

And in the French magazine "Uniformes" Nr 292-January 2014. A six page article on the Totenkopf. Excellent.

 

[OS81]

The banner you show is the correct style .
Tony has the best enlisted 2 L H R 2 that I have seen.
Here are my two.View attachment 50946View attachment 50947
Steve

Hello! Could you take more photos of the ersatz busby? I wonder how the helmet liner was sewn on. Because you can't make it out in this photo.

Sincerely, Oleksandr

 

[Gunner who?]

I don't know, it's a photo shown at the sale several years ago. The BA being XVII, it is often a question of recovering a colback of line and of fiddling with it in Leib-Hussard.The HR that corresponds to AK XVII is HR5.

In my 1905 Rangliste LHR1/2 belong to AK XVII.

 

[Jakob Ziegert]

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Thierry I agree with all your comments.
The two Totenkopf you show, are you are showing replicas? Or originals?

 

[KAGGR#1]

No doubt that Tony's is 100 % correct
If you ask about my 2 that are original
Steve