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German WW1 Pickelhaube (Baden)

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 800.00 USD
German WW1 Pickelhaube (Baden)
Original Imperial German WWI Infantry M1915 EM/NCO Pickelhaube Helmet With Grand Duchy of Baden Wappen. Features an aged steel front plate (wappen) with the Crowned Heraldic Griffin clutching a sword and resting on the Baden state shield. Below this is the Grand Duchys motto: MIT GOTT F. FUERST U. VATERLAND (With God for Prince, or Grand Duke, and Fatherland). The crown of this leather helmet displays a vented enlisted removable spike mount on an oxidized steel base plate. The spike is in excellent condition. It also has the correct "vent" on the rear support spine of the helmet. The front leather visor has oxidized steel trim. The metal spine that descends from the spikes base plate to the edge of the rear visor is in good condition. The leather wrap on the helmet is near excellent with very little shrinkage. Yellow and red cockade at left, and a black, white and red cockade at right. The interior is fitted with a nine-fingered black leather liner with some flaking/tears The lacquered exterior shows no flaking. It is common knowledge that many early helmets had the metal trim heavily oxidized due to exposure to chlorine gas. Overall very good condition.