SA0205 Saxon officer’s mini parade Pickelhaube, 19th ct

Saxon officer’s mini parade Pickelhaube, 19th ct
his Saxon mini cavalry parade helmet was reproduced by an expert workshop,
handmade from brass and iron, copied from an original at a 1:2 scale. It is much
better than what you normally would expect from a miniature helmet. However,
we could not get original buffalo hair for the parade plume. So we had to use
artificial hair. Otherwise, the accuracy and detail represent the best possible
workmanship. Frederick William IV introduced the Pickelhaube for use by the
majority of Prussian infantry on October 23, 1842 by a royal cabinet order. The
use of the Pickelhaube spread rapidly to other German principalities. Oldenburg
adopted it by 1849, Baden by 1870, and in 1887, the Kingdom of Bavaria was the
last German state to adopt the Pickelhaube (since the Napoleonic Wars, they had
had their own design of helmet, called the Raupenhelm (de), a Tarleton
helmet).From the second half of the 19th century onwards, the armies of a
number of nations besides Russia, (including Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador,
Mexico, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Venezuela,) adopted the Pickelhaube or
something very similar.[5] The popularity of this headdress in Latin America arose
from a period during the early 20th century when military missions from Imperial
Germany were widely employed to train and organize national armies.Tsarist
Russian Pickelhauben, with detachable plumes, mid 19th centuryThe Russian
version initially had a horsehair plume fitted to the end of the spike, but this was
later discarded in some units. The Russian spike was topped with a grenade motif.
At the beginning of the Crimean War, such helmets were common among infantry
and grenadiers, but soon fell out of place in favour of the fatigue cap. After 1862
the spiked helmet ceased to be generally worn by the Russian Army, although it
was retained until 1914 by the Cuirassier regiments of the Imperial Guard and the
Gendarmerie. The Russians prolonged the history of the pointed military headgear
with their own cloth Budenovka in the early 20th centuryThis is the size of our
miniature: overall height: 18 cms./7 inch, weight : 330 g/.7 lbs. This is the size of
the original: overall height: 30 cms./12 inch, weight ; 1.2 kgs/2.65 lbs.