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I also bought mine when they first came out Larcade vols 1&2 plus D.Laine what more do you need??

Started in 2010-2011 [watermark]. Now [2026] I finalised these. -text and captions including all illustrations/photographs. [Seperate...

I’d like to take this opportunity to show you the different types of covers of chimney, depending on the helmet’s design : ---M60 or...

I’d like to take this opportunity to show you the different types of covers of chimney, depending on the helmet’s design : ---M60 or...

Dear Clovis, you're right. You truly have a skilled and infallible eye, and you never miss a single detail. I actually used a dragoon...

Many thanks for this very interesting thread and for sharing the information about how many of these helmets were produced. I find this...

Thanks for the informative post. It is interesting that they went to the black parade bush when they merged with Prussia in the German...

Here is my favorite and oldest dragooner. The helmet is a M1848 Mecklenburg-Schwerin. From the Grossherzoglich Mecklenburgisches...

Thanks to Glennj and Argonne for your assistance! It seems Graf Karl was rather busy. The entries beyond his extensive combat record...

Just had this very nice close up of cooks wearing the feldmutze, it’s a very fascinating piece of headgear for sure.

Looking always for tunics headgear and equipment of the old saxon army 1866 until 1914. Best regards from Leipzig Saxon

FWIIW...The spike looks cast to me from pot metal

Thanks to Glennj and Argonne for your assistance! It seems Graf Karl was rather busy. The entries beyond his extensive combat record...

Wow, It's him! It's really him. :love::love:

Here is my favorite and oldest dragooner. The helmet is a M1848 Mecklenburg-Schwerin. From the Grossherzoglich Mecklenburgisches...