Hi guys,
Could you please dig up some more info on this soldier:

BRANDYS ALEKSANDER. Oficer 14 Pułku Ułanów Jazłowieckich. W 14 p.UJ od 1940 r. w Szkocji, ppor. Nast. w 1 Dywizji Pancernej gen. Maczka w walkach na kontynencie europejskim. W 14 p.UJ ponownie od 1945, d-ca plut. w III szw. Nast. w PKPR w Wk. Brytanii. PoII wojnie św. w Wk. Brytaniii i w Kanadzie, czynny w Kole Ułanów Jazłowiec-kich, współautor „Dziejów Ułanów Jazłowieckich”. Zmarł w Kanadzie, data, miejsce śmierci i pochowania nie ustalone.

Lived and died in Peterborough, ON.

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Hello All,
I picked up this Fire Tunic recently, the sleeve patch is Nurnberg, machine stiched, buttons are smooth silver, everything else looks proper to me, I believe this is a volunteer fire tunic for watchmeister? please feel free to offer your opinions or comments, Thank you for looking ! cool militaria

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SPINDLER & HOYER Gottingen 6 x 24 WWII Monocular With Case
Any feedback is appreciated.
I know this company made pieces for Swedish and Norwegian army prior to WWII.

Thanks !

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Hi all, don’t know if I can get any help, but hope so, quite a while back I spotted this ‘haube in a Brica-a-brac shop not a militaria dealer etc, I’m no expert, (I collect orders decorations and medals), but to me it looked right, felt right and smelled right, and it was an attractive price, (Cheap!) so I decided to take a gamble and bought it, the problem with gambling, there are two results, you win or you lose! I am prepared for either result, I’ve now picked up the courage to ask the pertinent question, what do the experts think, The helmet is in exactly the same condition as I bought it save a quick wipe down with a slightly moist cloth.

The only question mark raised by others was that the cockades and rosettes were for an officers helmet, on reflection cant disagree, as it ’s to be a mannschaften helmet.
The Wappen is very tight to the helmet with no gaps,

If its genuine what time-line would it be from, If fake doesn’t matter really, I managed to locate an old image from a dealers web-site which to my untrained eye, looks virtually the same.

any information, good or bad welcome.

regards

Alex

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I haven’t seen many steel helmets in this section for quite a while. I pulled out the M18 box from storage last night. *This one is a fairly well preserved M18, with a clean white doeskin liner that still has 2 of the cushions in the pockets on the rear*of the pads. *The tips of several of the tongues are damaged, and the draw string and chinstrap have been lost to time. *The paint is okay, with some rust/patina to be expected on a 100 year old helmet. *There is a size ink stamp on the rear of the apron. *This*M18 shell was produced by Quist (Ken N. can update the chart on German Helmets Inc. which indicates that Quist only made M16 models). *In my 50+ years of collecting I have only rarely come across Q*M18’s, and consider myself to be lucky to have landed this one, which I have had for about 5 years. *Anyway, here it is, hope you like it. *Jim G.

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