It all started with a phone call… from Germany. It was one of my German friends with a really unexpected question: Are you still interested in a nice IR 92? Of course the answer was „YES!“ I had been looking for one of these for about a hundred years or so!
Arrangements were made and a couple of days later I had to drive a few hundred km to meet my friend… but who cares about driving half a day when a man’s dream comes out?
After a few strong coffees (to prevent shaking) it took me more than an hour to check everything out while my heart was pounding in my throat… but everything was what I expected to see on an original IR 92!
The helmet plate fits correctly to the leather body, no extra holes in the helmet body or eagle, the correct FUERST bandeau has the extra curled ends as it should, the center of the eagle doesn’t have FR under the skull. The skull with femures and Peninsula bandeau still has a lot of silverwash. It’s stamped (not cast) and is super detailed.
The Braunschweig kokarde has the correct dark cornflower blue colour with golden ring and the spike is removable to fit a hairbush.
As a little bonus, this pickelhaube isn’t just an „ordinary“ officer’s model, it belonged to Herzog Johann Albrecht, who was the regent of the Duchy of Braunschweig from 1907 till 1913. His golden monogram on the liner confirms this. The linerband is made of extra thin luxury leather and the visor and neckguard have a high luxury finish.
Oh man… what a rush it was to take this beauty home!
Together with this pickelhaube, there was something else, but I’ll post that item later… to keep things exciting of course.
Enjoy the pictures gentlemen!
Adler 1
Arrangements were made and a couple of days later I had to drive a few hundred km to meet my friend… but who cares about driving half a day when a man’s dream comes out?
After a few strong coffees (to prevent shaking) it took me more than an hour to check everything out while my heart was pounding in my throat… but everything was what I expected to see on an original IR 92!
The helmet plate fits correctly to the leather body, no extra holes in the helmet body or eagle, the correct FUERST bandeau has the extra curled ends as it should, the center of the eagle doesn’t have FR under the skull. The skull with femures and Peninsula bandeau still has a lot of silverwash. It’s stamped (not cast) and is super detailed.
The Braunschweig kokarde has the correct dark cornflower blue colour with golden ring and the spike is removable to fit a hairbush.
As a little bonus, this pickelhaube isn’t just an „ordinary“ officer’s model, it belonged to Herzog Johann Albrecht, who was the regent of the Duchy of Braunschweig from 1907 till 1913. His golden monogram on the liner confirms this. The linerband is made of extra thin luxury leather and the visor and neckguard have a high luxury finish.
Oh man… what a rush it was to take this beauty home!
Together with this pickelhaube, there was something else, but I’ll post that item later… to keep things exciting of course.
Enjoy the pictures gentlemen!
Adler 1
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