$250.00
This is a consignment item. It is a small black leatherette helmet carrying case in excellent condition. Both the carrying strap and its securing hardware are intact. Its exterior is stamped “452 Bayreuth 2.” [Bayreuth, located in Bavaria, is world-famous for its yearly festivals featuring the operas of Richard Wagner]. The case stands 10 ½” tall and measures 11″ across the base.
This is a consignment item. It is a small black leatherette helmet carrying case in excellent condition. Both the carrying strap and its securing hardware are intact. Its exterior is stamped “452 Bayreuth 2.” [Bayreuth, located in Bavaria, is world-famous for its yearly festivals featuring the operas of Richard Wagner]. The case stands 10 ½” tall and measures 11″ across the base.
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This is a consignment item. It is a small black leatherette helmet carrying case in excellent condition. Both the carrying strap and its securing hardware are intact. Its exterior is stamped “452 Bayreuth 2.” [Bayreuth, located in Bavaria, is world-famous for its yearly festivals featuring the operas of Richard Wagner]. The case stands 10 ½” tall and measures 11″ across the base.
$795.00
The Imperial German Period produced a wide variety of headdresses, including pickelhauben, kugelhelme, tschapkas, busbies, and tschakos. Because of the number of regiments, pickelhauben and kugelhelme were the most common. Busbies, tschapkas, and tschakos appeared in far fewer numbers. Canvas foul weather covers were produced for all the varieties. They protected the leather, felt, and even metal exteriors from rain, mud, etc. Today we are offering a foul weather canvas cover suitable for a tschako. It is made of feldgrau canvas. Circling the cover is a red band measuring 2 ½” in width. On the red band’s front the letters “V. A. M.” are stenciled. (They were what one might call “traffic troops” or perhaps a variation of the U.S. Army’s MP’s). The cover is in very fine condition. It has clips in the front and back that secure it to the tschako’s front and back visors. One other detail is a slit on the cover’s top in the front. It allowed the field badge (feldzeichen) to be inserted, so people could determine the wearer’s home state.
The Imperial German Period produced a wide variety of headdresses, including pickelhauben, kugelhelme, tschapkas, busbies, and tschakos. Because of the number of regiments, pickelhauben and kugelhelme were the most common. Busbies, tschapkas, and tschakos appeared in far fewer numbers. Canvas foul weather covers were produced for all the varieties. They protected the leather, felt, and even metal exteriors from rain, mud, etc. Today we are offering a foul weather canvas cover suitable for a tschako. It is made of feldgrau canvas. Circling the cover is a red band measuring 2 ½” in width. On the red band’s front the letters “V. A. M.” are stenciled. (They were what one might call “traffic troops” or perhaps a variation of the U.S. Army’s MP’s). The cover is in very fine condition. It has clips in the front and back that secure it to the tschako’s front and back visors. One other detail is a slit on the cover’s top in the front. It allowed the field badge (feldzeichen) to be inserted, so people could determine the wearer’s home state.
$175.00
This is a pre war brass wappen for an enlisted men’s pickelhaube (spiked helmet) in a line Infanterie regiment or for a kugelhelm Artillerie regiment from the Kingdom of Saxony. The silver Saxon Coat-of-Arms is set against a gilt-toned sunburst. Its reverse sports twin posts by which it can be it can be attached to a helmet.
This is a pre war brass wappen for an enlisted men’s pickelhaube (spiked helmet) in a line Infanterie regiment or for a kugelhelm Artillerie regiment from the Kingdom of Saxony. The silver Saxon Coat-of-Arms is set against a gilt-toned sunburst. Its reverse sports twin posts by which it can be it can be attached to a helmet.
$1,225.00
This is one of the most delightful, well made desk pieces we have ever offered you. It is shaped like an officer’s tschako from the 3. Jäger-Regiment zu Fuß around the time of the 1866 Austro-Prussian War. It was the final consolidation war among the Germans, which pitted Austria, Württemberg, Bavaria, Saxony, Hannover, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Kassel, and etc. against Prussia, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and etc. The war lasted barely seven weeks. The Prussians crushed Austria and her allies. Austria, Württemberg, Bavaria, and Saxony emerged intact, but Hannover and some of the smaller states were absorbed into Prussia. The pivotal battle of the war was at Königgrätz and took place 3 July 1866, (three years after, to the day, of the Battle of Gettysburg’s final day). The German Army unveiled a revolutionary military mobility on the European continent by their use of railroads. The Prussian Army was superbly organized and led compared to Austria and her allies. The Prussians also had use of the more modern breech loading “needle guns,” which easily outgunned the muzzle loading muskets of their enemies. The beautiful tschako desk piece is made from a combination of leather and wood. The tschako’s exterior is covered with a superior-grade of extremely supple leather, even at more than 125-years-of-age. The tschako stands 4 1/8″ tall, is 3″ in diameter at the top, and 2 1/2″ in diameter at the base. A high-quality Saxon wappen measuring 1″ x 3/4″ graces the tschako’s front. Below the wappen are beautifully crafted chin scales showing every bit as much detail as their full-sized counterparts. Above the wappen a well-made field badge appears. It serves as a handle that allows the tschako’s top to open, revealing an inner storage chamber for small objects. The tschako’s hinged top swings up. The tschako’s top has “3. Jäger-Regiment zu Fuß” etched into the leather. At the tschako’s bottom is “5 October Plauen 1867.” Plauen is a small town in Southern Saxony, not far from Bavaria and the modern-day Czech Republic. Probably, the officer served in the Austro-Prussian War barely eighteen months before this handsome desk piece was dedicated. It is a wonderful miniature recreation of a tschako from the period. A lot of time and effort was expended in the construction of the piece, which sat on the desk of an officer who took great pride in his military service.
This is one of the most delightful, well made desk pieces we have ever offered you. It is shaped like an officer’s tschako from the 3. Jäger-Regiment zu Fuß around the time of the 1866 Austro-Prussian War. It was the final consolidation war among the Germans, which pitted Austria, Württemberg, Bavaria, Saxony, Hannover, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Kassel, and etc. against Prussia, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and etc. The war lasted barely seven weeks. The Prussians crushed Austria and her allies. Austria, Württemberg, Bavaria, and Saxony emerged intact, but Hannover and some of the smaller states were absorbed into Prussia. The pivotal battle of the war was at Königgrätz and took place 3 July 1866, (three years after, to the day, of the Battle of Gettysburg’s final day). The German Army unveiled a revolutionary military mobility on the European continent by their use of railroads. The Prussian Army was superbly organized and led compared to Austria and her allies. The Prussians also had use of the more modern breech loading “needle guns,” which easily outgunned the muzzle loading muskets of their enemies. The beautiful tschako desk piece is made from a combination of leather and wood. The tschako’s exterior is covered with a superior-grade of extremely supple leather, even at more than 125-years-of-age. The tschako stands 4 1/8″ tall, is 3″ in diameter at the top, and 2 1/2″ in diameter at the base. A high-quality Saxon wappen measuring 1″ x 3/4″ graces the tschako’s front. Below the wappen are beautifully crafted chin scales showing every bit as much detail as their full-sized counterparts. Above the wappen a well-made field badge appears. It serves as a handle that allows the tschako’s top to open, revealing an inner storage chamber for small objects. The tschako’s hinged top swings up. The tschako’s top has “3. Jäger-Regiment zu Fuß” etched into the leather. At the tschako’s bottom is “5 October Plauen 1867.” Plauen is a small town in Southern Saxony, not far from Bavaria and the modern-day Czech Republic. Probably, the officer served in the Austro-Prussian War barely eighteen months before this handsome desk piece was dedicated. It is a wonderful miniature recreation of a tschako from the period. A lot of time and effort was expended in the construction of the piece, which sat on the desk of an officer who took great pride in his military service.