Pickelhaube Collection

General Moltke and Kaiser Wilhelm II
The Chief of General Staff, General Helmuth von Moltke and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany observing the German troops in training. Date: 1914

Gifts from Germans following the Christmas truce, WW1
British non-commissioned officers pose with gifts and souvenirs given to them by Germans after the informal truce which took place at certain points along the Western Front in December 1914

German officer of World War One (unidentified), in uniform, wearing a pickelhaube spiked helmet

Large German Military Brass Band in all its glory! Date: circa 1909

WW1 - The Band of a Prussian Infantry Regiment - note the universal wearing of the traditional Pickelhaube (or Pickelhelm) helmets. Date: circa 1916

Brass lighter in the form of a jackboot, WW1
Brass lighter in the form of a jackboot with Imperial Eagle emblem, removable top in the form of a German Pickelhaube helmet. Trench Art

GERMAN TRAFFIC POLICEMAN
A German traffic policeman in a Pickelhaube (helmet with a spike on it) standing on a podium in the middle of the road. Date: 1930s

WW1 inkwell - German soldiers Pickelhaube
WW1 inkwell made in the form of a German soldiers pointed helmet or Pickelhaube. Trench Art

Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941), Wilhelm II or William II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918

Pickelhaube, German Army, 1914 (c). Associated with World War One (1914-1918). Date: 1914 (circa)

German Kultur by Edmund Sullivan
The Beast Breaks Loose - Kultur as it appears to Edmund J. Sullivan. The brutish, monstrous German soldier envisaged by Edmund Sullivan as a huge, hulking gorilla like monster

WWI inkwell in the form of a German soldiers Pickelhaube
First World War inkwell in the form of a German soldiers Pickelhaube. Trench Art

Matchbox cover with German helmet, WW1
Matchbox cover with a German Pickelhaube helmet bearing the words Gott Mit Uns (God With Us), and Souvenir de France on the side, Trench Art

WW1 - Three Smart German Soldiers heading to the front at the start of the First World War (card sent in September, 1914). Date: 1914

George V pictured in erman uniform with Kaiser Wilhelm II
King George V pictured in German uniform alongside his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II (in the uniform of the British Dragoon Guards!)in 1912

Christmas truce 1914
British and German soldiers fraternising on Christmas Day, 1914 during the famous Christmas truce

Highland soldier in French home, WW1 by Frank Dadd
A helmet of the huns is a gift from a Scots Santa Claus. A British soldier from one of the Highland regiments enjoys the hospitality of a French family

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Imperial March
Music cover of The Kaiser, Grand Imperial March, for pianoforte, composed by Ezra Read

WW1 - Satirical Caricature of a German Officer, wearing standard Pickelhaube and monocle. Date: circa 1915

Donkey wearing a pickelhaube, 1917
A captured donkey, sporting a pickelhaube, is gleefully paraded by some British soldiers during World War One. 1917

Dentist at work in a German trench
Dentist working on a soldiers tooth while he is in the trench. Date: 1915

Group photo, Prussian soldiers at training camp, WW1
Group photo, Prussian soldiers at training camp around the start of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Sphere cover - The Kaiser at Nish by Matania, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II pictured on a visit to Nish (Nis), the largest city in Southern Serbia, where he attended a banquet given by King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and inspected Bulgarian troops

German infantry uniform
The typical uniform of the German infantryman at the beginning of World War One, a predominantly blue-grey uniform with the distinctive pickelhaube helmet made less conspicuous by the addition of a

Officer at the front, obtaining German pointed helmets 1915
British officer dodging bullets from every direction, while picking German pointed helmets from a near by enemies trench, using a couple of bayonets, some string and a bar of soap

German artist at the Front during WWI
An artist, somewhere along the German line in France or Belgium during World War One, paints the scene in front of him. Several German soldiers

German troops in Lithuania 1915
German troops enter a Lithuanian town in July 1915

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