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Hi Gents, First one is dated May 1912 This next one dated April 1914 and last one dated December 1913 tony

Hi Asil76 I feel your pain. It’s a real downer but.... Perhaps you could share pics of the other 3? you never know, they may be good.... tony

Hi Christopher if you google ‘blue service helmet’ you’ll see similar..... tony Edit: ive just seen the more comprehensive answer on your other thread. Go with that!

Hi Ulsterman, I reckon it’s addressed to: Herr Gabriel Karl tony

Thanks Both as always ehemalige is ‘former’ i was reading it as ‘chemelize’ and all sorts! And I couldn’t read that either, cheers tony

Hi gents, Bayern, GreyC thanks for the answers.... So I’m now guessing that the note in the centre was added later. An expansion of the original smaller note at the bottom. That would explain the date being off? The bottom reads... Kaiseradler chemialize* Hohenzollern * chem abbrev above it what is the middle word please? thanks gents tony tony

Hi 1812 Overture i believe green marksmanship awards were issued to Jägertruppe. Certainly green wool balls but I’m not sure if the colour of the lanyard/rope was also green. Also I believe green was issued to pioneers but for skills other than marksmanship. Love the pictures as always cheers tony

Hi Gents This is a mounted photo of the Kaisers yacht Hohenzollern... Nice pencil annotation on the rear..... Gents, I read the date as either 1870 or 1876? However... Googled it just now and as you can see below it says in service 1878 - 1918. So seems to be an early picture... Hope you like it tony

Top marks!

Hi Gents just a thought... could it have been a pin back badge like this one below? It would not have left a significant sign? this one is mine but I don’t know if it’s from that period or if even a cap badge. just a thought..... tony

Hi Bayern I like it. Reservists - they do look more like men than boys.... cheers tony

Hi Jerry Thanks for your help with these again. The detail on the dragon is, as you say, clearly different. The wings and also the tail points down on the copies. I’ll keep trying thanks again tony

Hi Ian just spotted this thread.... i have a few photos, I will keep an eye out for anything similar. Where would these have been worn? 5cm is a fair old size..... tony

Hi gents im still not sure about the relationship between by bits but I have since noticed silver ones elsewhere..... this pic is on another thread.... different weave but reassuring to me none the less. tony

Hi Gents I believe the caption reads .... ‘The Russians have completely destroyed almost all the railroad tracks that lie on the Berlin-Warsaw route. our picture shows us a German patrol, which investigates the railroad track’ ————///———-// this next one shows the handing out of bayonet frogs. Freshly trained perhaps? Yet I think the flowers mean these men are about to deploy.... tony

Hi Gordon It seems there was one design awarded to men and a different design for women..... cheers tony

Hi Gents I was going to post elsewhere but I think it belongs here. it is in the spirit of the “what were they thinking...” theme yet not a trench. August 1915..... Of them, taking just one man in particular who catches my eye... He does not want to be there now. Shoulders down and Slumped’ - not happy I reckon! As he is positioned at the end, at the front, likely.he was either on of the first there, and has been waiting so long, he’s had enough or he was one of the last there because he didn’t want be there..... maybe no one to post a picture to, better things to do or a bad day. then I ask why etc etc Hope you like gents excuse my ramble! tony

Hi Gents tony ———/———-///— Nice one GreyC I wouldn’t have known.... always appreciated, tony

Hi Gents tony ———/—/——— Thanks Bayern always appreciated....

Hi Gents fingers crossed for these two... Only one lug left out of four I picked these two collar.(thanx Terry) tabs up together... Apparently they were found at a closed scrap metal yard —— Such a difference to this one : . So I hope these be genuine and escaped the melting pot! hope you like Gents tony

Hi 1812 Overture Great photos of it in wear.... Your example is a lovely thing! And the box is a beauty even without the clasp. Surely a scarce example?? tony

Hi Gents a fun one tony

Hi Bayern, Sadly impossible to make out the date stamp and unusually its not handwritten either. However, with an eyepiece, I can make out ‘ Fji ‘ on the cockade... and also just noticed an edelweiss, only one, on the cap of the man in the centre of the back row. ——-/://—— hi Gents Annotated. Names him as Herbert Von Bitter and I think it’s 301D or 30ID ‘X marks the spot’ man in the left - ‘Lans Kotsoki’ (I think...) and tony —-//—— Hi again Bayern, Just a thought- is there anything relevant about the finish of the peak of their caps? Does it help date it? the last pic above on this post has a black peak as do all 3 in the pic on previous post #63 the first picture on #63 (below) with 4 in it, just 1 ‘dark’ and rest pale.... cheers tony

Hi Gents a couple with older tunics.... And tony edit : waffenrock..,

Hi Gents, i was thinking maybe this was worth a couple of grand or so and buybackable.... Then i thought 42k was a typo? whats it worth please Gents? tony Agree!