Here is my latest addition. It is in nice shape except the chin strap buckels are lost to time. The scales are concaved and is named with a paper tag and penciled written in the brim with the same name.
Best regards,
Jim Penz

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Hi Jim,

Thats a neat Prussian pioneer haube, congrats! There were only 1 prussian garde batt and 30 prussian line pioneer batalions, they were nt even grouped as regiments.

I think the chinscales doesnt belong to the haube tho, the prussian officer of the pioneer batts use a Flat chinscales, whereas yours is convex chinscales, and the EM of the pioneer batts use leather chinstraps with silver coloured belt buckles.
The kokarden are those of the NCOs.

I am also intrigue by the depot stamp UR 5, I 'almost' had a pioneer haube once....the price was toooo steep, darn, and it was marked PB 29, pioneer batt 29.

I will check abt the UR 5 and get back to you asap, as the U and R are intriquing, usually R stands for Regiment, but pioneer as refered as Battalions, hence PB 29 etc.

Again, very nice pioneer haube, very envious!

Cheers,
Mush

Super piece. Beautiful.
OKW

Hello,

Their is something wrong.
- UR5 means Ulanen Regiment n°5 but this isn't a ulanen helmet.
Like Mush said a pionier helmet should be marked PBxx.
How can one explain an Ulanen regiment marking inside such a model of pickelhaube?
- I don't know but perhaps the unmounted personal of the ulanen regiments used an infantry/pionier model pickelhaube?
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Personally I think this helmet is made up with a mix of several (original) parts.

Cheers,
Peter

Hi,

Yes, I agree with Peter, the chinscales are definately dont belong to the haube, pioneer's officers wore FLAT chinscales, and I am still puzzled abt the UR 5, at first I thought, Ulanen rgt 5? But that doesnt make sense, its not an Ulan tscapka.
There could be another explanation, I was told that sometimes, a pioneer batt could be attached to a certain unit/rgt....but so far, U generally stands for ulan, I am still looking for some other answer.

Cheers,
mush