Original Items: Only One Pair Available. Offered as a pair, although they are somewhat different. These are total sleepers, straight out of the dusty Connecticut attic where they have lain for decades until the owner of the home tasked us to inventory and purchase an entire collection amassed over 60+ years.
These are traditional German first world war steel mounted leather enlisted men’s helmets known as Pickelhaulbe (plural). Each displays a Prussian spread eagle helmet plate and comes complete with lining and chinstrap. Both helmets retain their original colored cockades at each ear held in place by chinstraps.
One helmet has a spike on top denoting infantry and the second has a ball on top denoting
artillery.
The second helmet is also dated on the interior 1916 and is unit marked F.A.R. 44.
These are complete sleepers, the leather has shrunk with age and the helmets are in the undisturbed condition in which we found them (with the majority of the dust gently blown away).
These will have small deficiencies such as one with a separated leather strap, some sprung stitching, otherwise just as they came home after WW1. Untouched Sleepers of WW1, German Pickelhaulben helmets, the PAIR!