Peltmutze Reserve Leib Hussar

[dante]

Came from an old collection, feels and smells good considerable age, but is it ok ?, if not like to see and compare, thanks, Paul

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[dante]

Came from an old collection, feels and smells good considerable age, but is it ok ?, if not like to see and compare, thanks, Paul

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[Thomas]

Thta may be old, but I am pretty sure it is not German. I was offered something like this and compared it carefully to the originals on this web site http://www.kaisersbunker.com/pt/pelzmutze.htm and it was not even close. The inside should be cane and otehr materials, and the hair on the one that you posted looks like it came off an old coat. Mr. Lumsden can comment better, but that looks like a replica skull too.

[dante]

Thta may be old, but I am pretty sure it is not German. I was offered something like this and compared it carefully to the originals on this web site http://www.kaisersbunker.com/pt/pelzmutze.htm and it was not even close. The inside should be cane and otehr materials, and the hair on the one that you posted looks like it came off an old coat. Mr. Lumsden can comment better, but that looks like a replica skull too.

Welcome your views, Tony has said the same, the shape ihowever s the same as on the website and while I agree the pelt is strange it was not unknown to have brown fur, if the skull is a copy then I will return it if it is not (and it looks like its been on there for ever) I shall keep it (it was cheap) thanks again, Paul

[Thomas]

Welcome your views, Tony has said the same, the shape ihowever s the same as on the website and while I agree the pelt is strange it was not unknown to have brown fur, if the skull is a copy then I will return it if it is not (and it looks like its been on there for ever) I shall keep it (it was cheap) thanks again, Paul

Its not just the shape, its how it is made. The inside top on original EM examples are cardboard, the sides are cane tied together. he has interior photos there. Plus, I just checked his list of hussar regiments http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/New/husar0.htm and the two Leib hussars were not in the Guard Corps. Yours is marked for the guard corps I beleive, which is not correct either. As I said, I was offered something like this, he explained to me that it was probably a real busby, just not a german one, He called it a "prussianized" busby of some sort, probably british. So, that e-mail saved me over $2000.

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[dante]

Its not just the shape, its how it is made. The inside top on original EM examples are cardboard, the sides are cane tied together. he has interior photos there. Plus, I just checked his list of hussar regiments http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/New/husar0.htm and the two Leib hussars were not in the Guard Corps. Yours is marked for the guard corps I beleive, which is not correct either. As I said, I was offered something like this, he explained to me that it was probably a real busby, just not a german one, He called it a "prussianized" busby of some sort, probably british. So, that e-mail saved me over $2000.

Thomas you may have saved me as well many thanks, Paul