Chris Boonzaier

haha... you are right... there is a the army... then the artillery The sleeves seem to be ok, it is the tunic that is very long compared to others.... but same as the Herman H and Regimentals ones with this set up.....

Hi, I am open to suggestions. Hermann Historica had more or less the same with a "2" on the boards, they say it is 2nd infantry, but cannot be as the 2nd had a cypher. Regimentals has 2 such tunics but identifies them as Bavarian Heavy Cavalry. The boards are of course worth discussing. The minimal mothing on the jacket is on the one board and on the collar close to it, but just on the front side of one. Taking into account the Jacket is set up for slip on boards... and these themselves are slip on... sewing them in is taking a lot of trouble for no reason. Would have been waaaaaaay easier just to grab a new set of boards and slip them on, no need to sew anything. (Once again, the Herman H and Regimentals one ALSO have the boards sewn in). If someone was to do a dodgy, it would have been better to have the moth nips facing backwards. I will check the discoloring when I have a chance to get at it again.) Although a bit dissapointing if it were not Infantry... Schwere Reiter is not the worse thing it could be... there is not a lot of Info about cavalry uniforms online. I stupidly did not buy some books on Feldgrau this weekend... I should have, but the money ran out :-( (I did not ignore your thought on Beamte, but the old traces of medal loops make me think this unlikely, he would have had 3 medals and a pin back medal...which i think may have been a lot for an official)

Dont worry, explain to her you are no longer the youngest......

It is a very hard call... I agree that these are all over in Germany, I also picked one up at a flea market, but they were mainly used on Bikes, open cars etc. etc. I assume flyers had something similar, but how to tell which model was used by pilots, and which model was used by Uncle Hans to drive his car in 1923?

I am a bit obtuse here, but what exactly is the thing with sew on cockades and splitpinbacks? My Jäger one has splitpinbacks as well...

ooooohhhhh.... that is nice indeed... and somehow it seems to Christmasy!!

Can anyone say if the frog in the middle fits, or is it the Smaller WW2 style bayonet one? Thanks Chris

I am really not a bayonet buy, so I always call them "one of those butcher ones..." Here are a few of them that I found along the way....

So just the Ritterkreuz then, I wonder if he ever wore the 1957 version on parade? ... just kidding ... The pic with 3 is apparently just before he retired.

Years later....

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My Precious!!!! ;-)

Hmmm... I am a bit confused here ... I have no doubt about the authenticity of this piece, the wear and the slight moth tracking etc all fit perfectly... but the green collar is hard to place... I have found one period pic of a bavarian officer with a green collar, is it a war time anomoly? Best Chris

Hi, I just found the site for Saxonia Militaria and was pretty impressed. has anyone had any dealings with him? Best Chris

Does anyone have any bavarian Schwere Reiter boards to show? Thanks Chris

Thanks guys :-)

Do you think they did all of them in one go?

Hi Elmar, This one was in a group for a Stuka Pilot, I used to have it about 10 years ago. Best Chris

The odyssey continues.... Regimentals has hasically the same thing (2 of them) but has them as bavarian schwere reiter.... ??

Ehat I find interesting is the Herman Historica one has sewn in Shoulder boards... so does mine.... but when you look at them, they still have the tab under them for slip on boards... and the boards themselves are slip on, and still have THEIR tabs underneath. So the tailor took a jacket with slip on boards, and sewed them in, without changing the boards or the jacket!!

Harry really outdid himself this time. The fourth campaign against the Mad Mullah in Somaliland 1903-04 continues the saga on the Horn of Africa. Not only is the article a mine of information, but it needed four pages! Some medal groups are illustrated that will make many of us go weak at the knees HERE HH has done a right up on the Militärpaß for a soldier who had a unique career, Machine Gunner, Flame Thrower operator and member of the fledgeling Panzer troops HERE A new subsection dealing with Militärpässer can be found HERE, I hope to regroup a selection of outstanding passes, more to follow.

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I think the Obesrt is an Arty guy? Does not look spiky enough for an Infantry Picklehaube?

I think we need an aftershave.... To be quite honest, I could walk by my long dead grandmother at a show and not notice her... eyes fixed on the tables, bumping into other beings with eyes fixed on tables.... especially so for paper collectors as you need to see the small stuff....You would need a specific odour or something to subconciously draw your attention. Of course, pins work when you are standing in line for a beer, or talking to someone and you notice he has a pin .....

Maybe it was one of the few units that decomissioned 100% by the book and the Depot had all the uniforms and goodies back in the stores.... while many other units had the guys coming home with everything up to and including their 08s.... The seller of this had a total of 3 (I think) all from the same costume company... so maybe the 2nd Pioniers had there stuff go in a block to the company in 1919, and was not worn out in the fields etc for years after the war?