Tores Tuesday. – A private purchase model 1895 pickelhaube.
This beautiful pickelhaube still has its original box, a solid and luxurious case with a leather strap for carrying, and lined with fine silk. This was not cheap when it…
This beautiful pickelhaube still has its original box, a solid and luxurious case with a leather strap for carrying, and lined with fine silk. This was not cheap when it…
Not yet Tuesday, but in a comment in his blog about gas mask accessories,A Gustaf, in a comment, asked me to elaborate on the snap-on filter to the German leather…
Well, I started on a pickelhaube theme four weeks ago, and therefore I wil keep on that track for a few weeks longer. Though really invented in Russia, and used…
Here is a rather peculiar pickelhaube, in several ways.First of all, it is made of cardboard. I did not know this when I bought it, I did not realize that…
I have written about quite a few ersatz items already, so will not repeat all about the why’s and when’s about ersatz production. However, once again: The ersatz production was…
Now, this is not my most well preserved or most valuable pickelhaube, but still I like it a lot, as it is what it is.It is an M1895 pickelhaube, all…
Tores Tuesday- For want of leather - another ersatz blog. A modified M1871 sling.I suppose it is only fitting, given that my first two blogs here were ersatz blogs to…
I am always moved by the things that are in memory of the oh so many fallen. I have lots and lots of the German cards in memory of the…
As I mainly post obscure objects in my blog, here is another one, a leather rifle holster intended for attaching the rifle to the saddle. It was made by G&S…
As I am sure you know from Imperial German Historys great blogs, Germany was unified under one Kaiser, but not as such a unified country, there were four kingdoms and…