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Peter v wrote:Mod hat off, but handy. (Oh, cr@p -- it's eyeing me!)
Crfriend, is that hat a cousin to the Harry Potter Sorting Hat???
I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top!
sasq
They happen to be quite nice things of interest, and worth quite a bit, as I just happened to see on the telly that other day on a Brittish show where people can bring in things that they have and would want to sell. The better quality items of course. The pikle helm I think it is called, went inro auction and brough up I think about one thousand brittish pounds, which was much more than the low estimate.
A man is the same man in a pair of pants or a skirt. It is only the way people look at him that makes the difference.
Sasquatch wrote:I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top!
sasq
They happen to be quite nice things of interest, and worth quite a bit, [...]. The pikle helm I think it is called [...]
I think the term is "pickelhaub" (and I'm sure I managed to mangle the spelling rather badly), and was the cavalryman's helmet; there was a similar one for artillerymen, but that model had a ball atop the helmet instead of a point. I'll leave it up to the reader's imagination as to why.
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Sasquatch wrote:I always pictured it as one of those WW1 German helmets, you know, the ones with the spearpoint spike on top!
sasq
They happen to be quite nice things of interest, and worth quite a bit, [...]. The pikle helm I think it is called [...]
I think the term is "pickelhaub" (and I'm sure I managed to mangle the spelling rather badly), and was the cavalryman's helmet; there was a similar one for artillerymen, but that model had a ball atop the helmet instead of a point. I'll leave it up to the reader's imagination as to why.
However it was named, the helmets didn't help them much.
A man is the same man in a pair of pants or a skirt. It is only the way people look at him that makes the difference.
