Chip

Super pass Hardy! It pays to look at all Württemberg documents. You never know when you will find something like this. 

Chip

Yeah, I would stay away from Blume166. Apparently, he is a middleman. Damn shame. It's getting to be like the flight badges....a minefield for the collector. Personally, I'm not going to pick up any more tags.

Chip

It would help to know where he was from. Looks like he has a pioneer long shovel, so he could be from Pionier Batl. Nr.14, which was a Baden unit. He doesn't have the typical pioneer style ammo pouches. They are an pre-1909 pattern usually issued to second line troops (Landwehr or Landsturm for instance). This is a wartime photo as evidenced by his transitional (simplified) M1907/13 tunic. So, the photo is most likely from 1915 or 1916 (at the latest), due to his wearing of the Pickelhaube with the unit number still evident.

Chip

Trajan,

Sure. First, this is a M1915. You can tell that, because of the width (4,5cm) and the field gray backing material. For the M15, red became the Waffenfarbe of the Feldartillerie for shoulder straps. All Feldartillerie units, with the exception of the Bavarian units, had a flaming bomb along with the unit number. Bavarians had the unit number only.

Red was also the color for the Ulans, but they used their regimental facing color as piping on their red straps (except for the regiments that had red as their facing color, in which case, they had no piping). The sixth Ulans had no piping, but they had a royal cypher and not a number. 

Chip

Very nice Alex! I always enjoy seeing your new items and especially those of enlisted men. 

Regards,

Chip

Hi,

M15 bayr.6.Feld Artillerie Regiment.

Chip

Dedehansen,

You are talking about WWII ranks. I don't believe the rank "Oberpionier" existed until after WWI. The Etikette is probably from the Reichswehr period. If anyone thinks this is incorrect, please add your information.

Chip

This looks like a label from one of the items that came out of a costume shop in Germany last year. Many of the items had been reissued postwar, but were originally connected to the Pionier Batl.Nr.2. The caps I saw were Einheitsmützen and had many stamps on them, both wartime and postwar.

Chip

Chris,

What patterns do you need? I have two patterns of enlisted (simplified M07 and M16) and one or two officers.

Chris, 

You've been in the military. Do you have to ask?  

I can partially explain it. Before the war, the regiment had two uniforms, a Friedensgarniture and a Kreigsgarniture. The wartime version was without the cuff and collar Litzen. Of course, once the war started all bets were off and they used everything they had available. The tunic here with the plain Brandenburg cuffs is a simplified M07, with shortened Litzen and simplified straps. You would normally see this tunic with Bavarian simplified style cuffs, but it still has the plain Brandenburg type.

I have no explanation for the Swedish cuffs other than to say that there was a lot of moving around with Ersatz battalion troops often going to fill up units other than the one the battalion normally supplied troops for. I have a number of Sterbebilder where the photo shows a Leiber uniform, but the soldier died serving in another unit.

Chip

WWI era examples usually have a crowned inspection stamp on them. 

Chip

I like it too and Chris is correct it is an "R" and there was a Reserve Jäger Batl.Nr.8.

Chip

"M" for Maximillian II ruled Bavaria from 1848-1864.

Chip

Correct. Kaiser's Yacht.

Austrian members of the Johanniter Orden. For the non-military uniform of the order.

Chris,

That's a nice piece. I've got a telegraph troops multi-tool marked the same way.

Chip

Old duffer? I'd prefer respected colleague, valued customer, knowledgeable collector.....but old duffer?!   Eric, if you wanted a photo, you just had to ask.

I learned my lesson long ago about chiming in on Chris's famous baiting threads. Now, I just watch and wait until he actually posts the item.

Did the lot include the EK I document?

Chip

Kurt Vogg.

I've seen it before, but no one has been able to pin it down. My guess is postwar, but if German or otherwise.....no guess.

Chip

The the handwritten script looks a bit belabored. Is it a fake? The date on this is one day before the regiment was formed? And a Württemberger?

Chip

The tunic and Tschako are excellent and Chis is right saying that about all units that had to serve in the front lines.

Charles,

You did make the claim. It's your obligation to prove what you say, not ours to disprove it.

Well, you can't go by casualties, because even poor performing units could have high casualties. I think you can go by where a unit was sent and what tasks they were required to carry out. The naval ground forces had a fairly quiet front compared to many others. They never saw Verdun. They never went to the mountains, to Italy, to Romania, to any of the famous battles. No, I think they are far from the best unit in the German army.

Very dangerous and probably wrong.

Hallo Stefan,

Der Waffenrock ist ein M1907/13. Es hat vereinfacht Schulterklappen . Es gab keine M1910 Mannschaftenrock.

MfG,

Chip