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Hmmm...I am trying to click on the link and receiving a "bad request" message.

Thanks for pointing that out. I think I fixed it!

Joe-- I want mine from you-- suitably inscribed of course! Let me know when you get some and will send you Murcan money domestic.

Yours is a complementary copy all of the review and work you did, which was significant! My only complaint is if you get yours before I get mine. But if you do get it first it will not be inscribed.

We will fix that if that turns out to be the case.

I have been asked repeatedly to post the table of contents.

They have started selling this book rather rapidly even though amazingly, we have yet to see our copy! A number of people have been very kind in their words awaiting this release. You can buy it for $25 from the publisher online. They have a printer in England which should help the postage costs somewhat. So I guess if you order from Europe they have told me they would print it in England. If you wait for the retailers to stock it it will cost $30.

http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=60521

The purpose of this book is to provide a one-volume resource for collectors and historians with an Imperial German army interest. The more we researched, the more we found there were more stories, myths and misunderstandings about Imperial Germany than there were facts. Different authors addressed different aspects: collectors, historians and educators all had their own area of expertise, but there was no readily available resource to give a general overview of Imperial Germany. Though it is convenient to call it "Germany," at the start of the First World War, there was still no united Germany, no German army, and no German officer corps. At 333 pages with 183 pictures and over 670 footnotes, this is an attempt to explain the intricacies of how the country worked -- militarily, politically and socially.

If you order it online: When you get to step three the requirement for your e-mail address is buried in the middle of the form. If you do not put in an e-mail address it will hang up. Janet and I are just shaking our heads, figuring that the review copies, and the general public will have theirs before we get ours!

What a nice find congratulations!

RICK,

I HAVE THE SAME IMAGE WITH THIS ON THE BACK. I am not yelling, but this voice software just capitalized everything.

I know these guys made helmets and supplied them to Army Corps XIV and XV.

Sorry I just got to this. Actually it was quite common.

As early as mid-1915, skilled workers left the military to work in industries vital to the war effort. Of the 56,000 employees working for Krupp in June 1915, 22,000 of them were men excused from military service. By early 1916, 1.2 million men were exempted. By the beginning of 1918, 2.1 million were exempted workers. The number of women working in traditionally male roles exploded, and by some estimates, women operated roughly 80 percent of farms.

I think Joe was just mentioning as an aside that there was also a pickelhaube manufacturer named Wunderlich.

Correct! And I cannot think this tag is inventory related.

thank you Bob! That was pretty clear to me,

I don't know Chip. That's what I thought too but Mike said they were in the 1914 list. .

He is not in the Gotha which I believe means he is not noble. The name Wunderlich is the same as a major supplier of pickelhauben. it makes no sense to me that a supplier would have a bin for helmets of lieutenants, as opposed to officers in general. Nor a bin for this specific regiment but who knows? Perhaps he is a very rich non-noble which would explain this regiment.

The regimental history would help.....

This is an unusual tag found inside the silk liner of an officer's helmet that is all correct. The name is the same as a major supplier of pickelhauben. Mike Dwyer says it is not located in the 1914 rank list. As the helmet seems to have some zinc parts it is probably later than 1914. Is there such a person in a later list? I have difficulty believing that the manufacturer would sell a helmet to this specific regiment. Any wisdom of old wise ones????

Another picture of our hero on the left. But what is this uniform?

Rick,

I think there is some disconnect somewhere -- seems so easy on these guys -- I have pictures of him after the war -- he apparently went to Denmark and as the oldest brother was the decision-maker in selling the Silesian properties to the Polish government for a fraction of their value. Allegedly he died in 1973 and was in the GD kURR. REGIMENT.

Germinal article

http://www.pickelhauben.net/articles/Reventlow.html

Thank you Chip I did not know that. Was he ever in the Gdkurr?

Here is another picture of Kurt. Allegedly, his back is toward you on the right and he is talking to some Austrian that I cannot identify.

I received many more pictures and much information about our hero in this old thread. This is our hero Kurt's older brother Henri. Supposedly he was in the GdKurr. Regiment. Heinrich Curt Ludwig Erdmann Georg 26.8.1891 - ?

Can anyone tell me more about this guy?

Thanks Rick! I thought I had posted the box before I have the helmet now. I searched and searched for that thread, but could not find it or convince myself anything about it. So thanks for finding it!

VR/Joe

I am looking for more information on this individual from LJR 153 who had a helmet from JR153. And it was a full officer helmet??? Thank you in advance!

Leigh,

I am not sure what to make of this helmet. It appears to me that it was reworked. Originally it was a private purchase helmet for an officer with a pre-1914 wappen. However, I think it has been messed with. I am pretty sure that the studs on the cruciform base have been changed to the wrong ones. And that M91 posts were added. It is just not clear to me. The Bavarians seem to have had a habit of using bayonets spikes with standard chin scales. This one seems to be reversed. if you have an original red bush for an officer that would be rare. I am in need of one myself. I also have a reproduction trichter with the standard thread problems.

VR/Joe

the officer's "MW" insignia was not authorized until October of 1916.

Chip, what's source was that in? I need to find out more about those initials.

A post war, Bavarian automobile club???

Luggage Fanatic

:P :P

but that doesn't mean the voyage hadn't taken place years and years earlier

Of course, you are correct. I was almost embarrassed to ask this... almost..... :unsure:

I didn?t knew neither that they where repaired

If you really want to know more :rolleyes:

http://www.pickelhauben.net/articles/DepotMarks_5_09.html

Everyone needs to stop laughing for just a minute. Okay I admit, I know nothing about this subject. I received this postcard, and on the back is a date, which did not make sense. Is it possible that this guy was part of a failed relief mission to DOA by air???

I have no idea at all . So if I have provided nothing else I have provided comic relief this morning. What is up with this guy? Who/what is he?

Always love to see helmets! I'm afraid this one is in really sorry shape, but I don't imagine you get a lot of them in your country. The lack of markings, should not get you excited. This is from my website.

Why would my helmet have no marks? There are several reasons and one could buy a Diensthelme that looked an awful lot like an issue helmet but as a private purchase item there would be no marks. Helmets not issued out to units would also bear no marks. As the war went on I think standards in BKA's slipped to keep pace with the volume so war time helmets are less likely to have marks. As Pickelhaube were phased out in favor of steel helmets inflowing inventory would be stockpiled. Manufacturers were completing contracts and units were being issued steel helmets. Helmets that were stockpiled and not issued would not have a marking. In the same vein many of these stockpiled helmets were supposedly the supply for the thousands of war bond helmets found in the USA. So thousands of good unmarked helmets found their way into family hands.

Rob,

While your comments about the date makes immense sense. I have found significant use of the picklehaube inside Germany through 1918. I guess it was using obsolete equipment in rear areas. Here is a helmet repair Mark from 1918.