Prussia, Kingdom. A Line Infantry Regiment Officer’s Pickelhaube Auction 26mm (w) x 76mm (h)

26mm (w) x 76mm (h)

It is marked in handwritten red ink "43" in two places

Footnote: Laurence Ormsby Pearce was born and bred in Johannesburg

and keeping up a fairly heavy fire

numbered "400793"

Prussia, Kingdom. A Line Infantry Regiment Officer’s Pickelhaube Auction 26mm (w) x 76mm (h)(Preuen Pickelhaube fr einen Offizier der Linien Infanterie). A striking and exceptionally well preserved Prussian Line Infantry Regiment Officers Pickelhaube, constructed of a boiled and blackened leather shell. The exterior crown is topped by a polished brass disc secured in place with four rivets topped by eight pointed star caps. Emanating from the disc is a two piece spike, with the throat perforated by two ventilation holes and with the top