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    Here's the Austrian actor Josef Giampietro posing as a Leibhusar in a Berlin theatre production. It must be during the early 1900s, as Giampietro died in 1913.

    The archetypal Prussian officer......and not even German!

    I'm particularly interested in the cap. It looks like the real thing and the TK is one of the scarcer types.

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    Fantastic photo, Robin! :jumping::jumping:

    As for the good props department, probably the entire uniform is either a real Leib Hussar uniform, or was made by a tailor that made them for real hussar officers! :beer:

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    I agree - the uniform is probably real, or from an authorised tailor.

    The skull is the type shown below........I've never seen a clear photo of this type before, with the 'vertical eyes'.....but this photo must pre-date 1913, so the skull does too.

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