Original U.S. Model 1881 71st New York Guard Officer’s Dress Spiked Pith Helmet by Ridabock & Co. WWII Montgomery's British Eighth Army at

Montgomery's British Eighth Army at El Alamein

marshalling yards at Hamm and Reims and airfields in Mesnil au Val and Berlin

The bread bag's origin dates back to the Prussian armies of Fredrick William I of Brandenburg

This is a used but nice clean example of a model now becoming very hard to find on the collectors market

The SSh (sta'lnoy shlem

Original U.S. Model 1881 71st New York Guard Officer’s Dress Spiked Pith Helmet by Ridabock & Co. WWII Montgomery's British Eighth Army atOriginal Item: One Only Available. Much like our European cousins in the 1880s, the U. S. Army started to adopt spiked pith helmets, often in white, with all brass mounts and occasionally plumes. These saw active service in the Spanish American War of 1898 especially in the tropical climate in Cuba. While often referred to as "pith helmets" in the broad sense, it was made from cork, like many European variants, such as the Wolseley pattern used by the