Hi guys , can you give me any info on my busby ?

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Graeme
I wish I could help with your busby, I'm sure others will be able to help you, just as an aside could you give us a few more details on the edged weapon directly behind it.

Bill

If I did my homework correctly it is a Prussian Landwehr Hussar enlisted busby. The cross is a landwehr cross.
The busby should be an earlier version as war time versions were made of felt or fiber. Is the fur brown or black?
Not at all sure what the blue Kolpak (busby bag) is representative of. I read they were not used during the war.

--dj--Joe

As to originality, I can not tell.

An interesting site.
http://www.kaisersbunker.com/

--dj--Joe

We need pictures of the intero. The enlisted busby were made out of a bamboo frame. A leather finger liner. The outside is covered with a Black seal skin fur. During war brass chinscales were replaced with a leather chinstrap . Same style as the pickelhaubes. You will have to post better pictures.To get a better answer.

Thanks Joe Semen

Hi,appreciate your intrest guys i should have mentioned it is dated 1918 ,joe you were bang on with the bamboo consruction will post interior pics thanks .

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Bill almost forgot one is an old imperial falchion the other is 1st pat luft dag

Hi, Hate to give you bad news,From the first photos had gut feeling this was bad. But the construction of this busby is all wrong. Have look at Kaiserbunker webpage . He has a example of what they should look like inside and out. Good chance his chinstrap is a copy. But that is my personell opinion. Sorry for the bad news.


Thanks Joe Semen

This is a bad copy, nothing more. Joe is right with his opinion.

Regards Kolibri