Prussian Garde Jaeger / Schutzen Tschako - "Strange" Wappen.

[leigh kitchen]

A leather one with brass side posts & grey metal wappen, looks like traces of grey paint on it.

The wappen fits the grommetted holes on the tschako which has presumably been utilised by post office or another organisation as there are a couple of holes visible either side of the wappen (or used by another unit prior to Garde?) & the imprint of a cockade on the left side.

There are partly legible markings inside  including "STUTTGARTT" & "1915".

Repro chinstrap, original cockade & now fitted with an very bviously repro field badge.

The wappen puzzles me - the bandeau is ribboned through the points of the star but over the points that are it normally goes under & under the points it normally goes over.

Photos to follow when I can reduce them to an acceptable size.

Photos loaded now, didn't need reducing, must've been a glitch.

Edited May 5, 2015 by leigh kitchen

[leigh kitchen]

Some bad photos of the markings inside the top. If I try hard enough with the right magnifier or camera I should be able to make out more detail.

[leigh kitchen]

The more I look at this. the more likely it seems to me that the extra holes were caused by a Bavarian wappen having been fitted at some time. It was on long enough to leave an impression on the leather.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Wow... that is wierd.... although it looks like a period badge.

I wonder if the stamps were 2 piece affairs and this was set up after 7 drunken nights?

 

[leigh kitchen]

Yep. it's quite a major manufacturers mistake, unless it's some kind of deliberate variation used by a different unit?