Hi gang,

Phew, I have no words for this, thats a crap! And someone actually bought it for 300 dollars.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=6587463894

cheers,
Mush

P-U....my first take on this was: WHY??? Talk about the restoration project of the decade!! DOn't think these babies are salvagable!

Rob

It looks to me like the sellor stripped them for parts for his restoration project.

Doug

Old Pickelhaube collector Eric Johannsen revealed an interesting method for bringing these gnarly, leather shells back to shape. It involved immersing them in a shallow bowl of warm water! Once the shell relaxed and became pliable it was removed for air drying while stuffed with rags or newspapers then given a coating of something like Pecards. Not for the faint hearted in my opinion. I never tried it but believe there are guys out there that know how to revitalize these'project' pieces.

Robert

WOW....I agree...I wouldn't know the first place to start when restoring these leather jobbies! Sounds complicated! Cool...but complex!

Rob

Thats a lot of money someone paid to experiment with restorations.

agreed-i can't believe anybody would shell out that kind of money on these "restorable" items.even if they succeed, with the spare parts required, what a lot of trouble & time to go to.would it pay them to re-sell, & would they profit from this venture??maybe they'll keep them as part of a collection? it's amazing what sells on ebay sometimes!!
Bill

I have to argee that it certainly appear to be a lot of money but....if the bidder has the resources, why not. I am faily certain these will be restored and possibly resold. To each is own. We all have paid what others consider an outragous price for something.


But again, personally, I would have passed this auction by without so much as a second glance.

you'd have to destroy another haub just to restore this one

- Chris

I dont think they are too bad ,unlike this http://cgi.ebay.com/WWI-WW1-German-Prussia...1QQcmdZViewItem


which would require a miracle .Rob.

I have repaired a pair of high US leather Bell Crown helmets that were dented and crushed in areas this way. Straightened them out without any trace of early damage.

I don't collect Pickelhaube helmets but I understnd there are a lot of repro parts being made for them and possibly the buyer had that in mind for rebuiling them at low cost and reselling them. Original leather shells would be a plus for doing this. Just my thoughts, Ray

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I dont think they are too bad ,unlike this http://cgi.ebay.com/WWI-WW1-German-Prussia...1QQcmdZViewItem


which would require a miracle .Rob.
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Hi Rob,

Thats an interesting ebay link that you posted, its a Prussian Line officer haube, and it started its life (before the somethng/someone crushed it with a roller, that is )as a high end haube, it has the "AWES MARKE" label, AWES MARKE was a german haube maker and they made really good helmets, perhaps the seller is counting on that info in setting his price, but, phew, what an asking price, U$ 625 for that!
And yes, I agree with you, Rob, it would require a miracle to restore.

The only haube that I had to restore is my Saxon Reserve officer haube, the rear visor's stiches was loose etc, hence the restorer restiched everything again, clean the brass trimmings and I ended up amazed and satisfied He did an excellent job.

here is it is:

http://www.militariacollecting.com/index.php?showtopic=14008

Mush

The buyer of those two relics, was "haublover". This buyer buys junk over and over which means that this person is probably repairing and making parts helmets. Some people this is OK, until you end up buying one of these as original and find out later you got ripped off. Probably this person has a big collection of parts helmets.