SA0218 German Imperial Prussian (Pickelhauben) Spiked Helmet with Infantry Spike

German Imperial Prussian (Pickelhauben) Spiked Helmet with Infantry Spike
Very tall single piece spike which is rare to found with 4 retaining stars Gilt
officer’s eagle. German Imperial Prussian (Pickelhauben) Spiked Helmet with
Infantry Spike on top & Prussian Eagle insignia on the Front. This helmet has liner
intact, Body is hard Black. Front and rear visors are also intact. Made up in our
own factory. Only single manufacturer in India.The Pickelhaube was originally
designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, perhaps as a copy of
similar helmets that were adopted at the same time by the Russian military. It is
not clear whether this was a case of imitation, parallel invention, or if both were
based on the earlier Napoleonic cuirassier. The early Russian type (known as “The
Helmet of Yaroslav Mudry”) was also used by cavalry, which had used the spike as
a holder for a horsehair plume in full dress, a practice also followed with some
Prussian models (see below).Adoption by Prussian and other armies[edit]Prussian
infantry Pickelhaube in 1845 rederick 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. 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 century.