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Chris, If you have seen volume 1, you will pretty much know what volume 2 & 3 are like. The format is the same, just the subjects are different. Volume 2 is headgear and uniforms, whereas volume 3 concentrates on Landsturm and colonial. Chip

Here are mine.

Chris, Did you ever come up with the information on the guy offering the DVD? Thanks, Chip

Since I started this thread, the museum has added many new things, including a battle-used and damaged, French Renault tank and a fabulous collection of German Pickelhauben and uniforms.

15,000+ and still going..... This does not even figure in the massive amount of information passed along at the WA site. Impressive Rick, and always interesting. Thanks for all you do for us mere mortals. Chip

Heiko, That is a pretty set. I really like those Skagerak bars! Did this medal have any other associated bars? Thanks, Chip

Most of them are "celebrating" long membership in the Bund. 1873 is the founding date of the association and the "P" cypher is that of 91.IR, which was granted in 1867. Chip

Yep, and the photo is post-1911 when the Verkehrstruppen changed piping from red to light gray. The collar patches on the Kleiner Rock (or maybe Litewka) are light gray too. Chip

I wish I had a few more! They don't turn up on the loose very often. I found this one at the Stuttgart show back in 1982. ($2.00). Chip

Here's an example (4.Stufe) of the first degree of the higher classes of Fechterabzeichen. The first three classes were formed from linen braid (Borte) with the state indicated by a colored stripe running down the middle. The fourth class was a single metalic lace (Tresse) chevron, also with a single line of color running down the middle. This example is Prussian (black stripe). The classes 5-12 were indicated by combinations of Tresse and Borte. Kloslowski wears an example of the 1.Stufe, the wider linen single chevron. Chip

Super photos and a great snippet of history. That one poor Chasseur got a bit roughed up. Thanks Hardy. Chip

I think the helmet is just a standard one. It's the angle (I think) that makes it look like something else. Regimental Stosstrupp would make sense. He is wearing a M15 infantry strap on his simplified M07/10 Waffenrock. This was normal for stocks of these tunics, which were still being issued long after September 21, 1915 when the Bluse was introduced. Here is what the unit was wearing on the M07 Waffenrock (blue piping). Chip

Hardy, Nice Konvolut! Any idea why he is carrying a Kar98a? Chip

Tom, The oilcloth cap was changed from black to gray in November of 1914. There was even an homeland version made from felt made in early 1915. According to regulation, the cap began to be replaced by Pickelhauben in the Spring of 1915 for the mobile Landsturm, with the immobile Landsturm battalions in the homeland remaining the only ones to continue their use. Finally, in June of 1918, due to the lack of this waxed canvas, it was ordered that all the remaining caps were to be withdrawn and the immobile Landsturm supplied with Pickelhauben. Within weeks of the Prussian Erla?, the Saxons and the Bavarians followed suit. Chip

Thanks Web Wizard! :cheers:

Joe, No idea why the date difference. Nothing is mentioned in Kraus about this being changed during the war. Perhaps the size with give a clue as to what its use was. Chip

Here is one of my unit marked bayonets (and my favorite!). Chip

Chris, You are assuming that the pioneer units in the colonies were set up like those in the continental army. I think the units were much smaller than battalions. Chip

Chris, Maybe they didn't have a "Z" (Zug) and had to use the upside-down "2" in its place. Chip

Rick, I did not know that there was more than one flavor of Offizierstellvertreter. Please explain. And could that be why we see some wartime Offizierstellvertreter wearing the Etatsm??iger Feldwebel sleeve chevrons (as a differentiation from the other type)? Chip

Hardy, Is the man in your photo from the Saxon IR 104? How about a close-up of the shoulder strap? From what I can see, it looks like this....

Cnock, I was referring to the launcher. There is no Granantenwerfer 15 that I am familiar with. Chip

Cnock, That last picture (in post #27), I believe, shows a Signalwerfer, which normally fires neither of the rounds shown with it. I had thought that the Granatenwerfer 14 was the first one shown in this thread, the one that has been called a Spigot trench mortar. Chip

Hardy, I can't say that I have ever seen anything like them. I don't get the impression that they are military, but who knows. Both are showing traditional W?rttemberg insignia.

Thanks Jens. At the very end of the German text, the name is "Beverloo", the large training camp in Belgium. Dond's badge says "St.Metallw.Fab. W.Meyer & F.Wilhelm Stuttgart" Chip