Relative cost of a Pickelhaube

[joerookery]

If you care to read, my first draft of the article on relative cost of a haube is on the web at http://www.coljs.com/articles/relative%20cost.htm

Shoot away...comments and corrections welcome. Thanks!

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Joe, I know nothing about the subject so I found it interesting to read.


I found one tiny mistake, where the the letter "K" is missed from the word book in the last section.

Cheers, Ade.

[joerookery]

Thanks! Fixed!

[Adam H]

Joe,

Very interesting, thanks for your work in putting that info together and for sharing it with us. I'm enjoying learning more about Pickels!

Cheers,

Adam

[Dave Mosher]

Joe

Very interesting and thought provoking! Based on this information, I would presume that a lowly leutenant in a regiment which was authorized to wear a trichter could barely afford one decent helmet "with all the fixin's", let alone three of them. Is there any information in the AKOs or specific regimental regulations that you have seen which requires an officer to have three helmets, or could he "make do" with one or pehaps two helmets?

Regards

Dave

[joerookery]

Dave,

Thanks for the comments. I have seen nothing official requiring 3 helmets. Martin led one to believe it in his book but he obviously had money. I've also read that somewhere else but cannot recall where. The most insightful comment I've had is that there must have been a thriving used haube market. This makes much sence as DOV offered a remounting service (for a fee), Perhaps many old and properly plugged double holes were used haubes? I'll address all this in draft #2.

[joerookery]

On another similar track, a lowly LT could not afford anything. These dudes were destitute with big demands on resources, a great position, social status and a lot of debt. Marriage was the plan. I wrote a bit in the article on how to become an officer, that it was normal for the brides father to pay off the officer's debt upon wedding. This was not a love thing first. Geez when I married Janet she had a lot of credit card debt and her parents had passed. Guess I did it for love and darn happy about it all these years later.<O</O</O

Another critical point were the social classes of the officers. More middle class guys and nobles with little money. These guys wanted elite units that cost a fortune. So money-lending was normal, the lenders resented, anti-Semitism grew. <O</O</O