Fake Leib Regt helmet cover?

[Chris Boonzaier]

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Me no like.....

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Pickelhaube-Tarnbezug-Bayern-Infanterie-Leibregiment-Munchen/254003517964?hash=item3b23ca1a0c:g:TFsAAOSwT2BcAD-L:rk:1:pf:0

[Bayern]

Hello Chris , Why you dislike the cover ?

[Chris Boonzaier]

HI, the cloth itself, and how its sewn, but the very fact that it has a crown... the Leib Regt did not wear crowns on the cover. There are isolated photos, but it seems to have been a single photo studio that had one with a crown and veeeeeery occasionaly you see a photo of a leiber in their studio with a crown.

[KIR]

Hi Chris,

take a look here (scroll down): http://pickelhauben.net/helmet-covers-uberzug/

Best regards,

Jens

 

Edited December 1, 2018 by KIR

[The Prussian]

Hello!

I found another one in Schiffer´s book "The imperial german armies", vol. II.

It´s from Marshall Daut´s collection.

Edited December 1, 2018 by The Prussian

[Chris Boonzaier]

I have a 3rd card with the same cover. Chip had the theory, and I think it the logical one... there being a photographer or 2 near the Leiber barracks who had one of these for when the guys came in for their Photo Op... When you see pics of them, and they are pretty scarce, then they are on a "March out" photo....

[Tony]

Just a thought, but would the stitching look that bright on a well worn cover?