Germany, Weimar Republic. A Württemberg Fire Brigade Officer’s Pickelhaube Hold in the sinking of the

in the sinking of the SM UB-54 in the North Sea on March 11

maker marked in Chinese on the reverse

white and blue embroidered insignia

with a glass eye replacing his destroyed left eye

1940 to February 14

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Württemberg Fire Brigade Officer’s Pickelhaube Hold in the sinking of the(Wrttemberg Pickelhaube fr Feuerwehr Offiziere). A well preserved Free Peoples State of Wrttemberg Fire Brigade Officers Pickelhaube, constructed of a lacquered black vulcanfibre shell. The crown is topped by cross shaped replacement silvered brass fixture, with a sphere of identical construction emanating from the centrepiece and situated securely within a bowl of oak leaves. A silvered brass bar extends from the back of the fixture and continues