Austria-Hungary, Empire. An M17 Stahlhelm, with Bleckmann Mill Mark Hold A 1914 Iron Cross II

A 1914 Iron Cross II Class Award Document to Major Lieber of the 3rd Grenadier Regiment of King Friedrich Wilhelm I

A band of raised oak leaves transitions into a ribbed pumpkin-coloured celluloid handle with ten rows of twisted silvered wrap in the recessed of the ribbed grip without interruption

on April 8

marked "RZM" (Reichszeugmeisterei) and maker marked "M4/87" (Matthias Salcher & Söhne

dated to Berlin on March 1938

Austria-Hungary, Empire. An M17 Stahlhelm, with Bleckmann Mill Mark Hold A 1914 Iron Cross II(sterreichischer Stahlhelm M17). An extremely well preserved Austro Hungarian M17 Stahlhelm (steel helmet), constructed of a single sheet of magnetic molybdenum steel which retains the vast majority of its original olive drab brown Isonzo braun paint. Five domed rivets are distributed around the outer circumference for the accommodation of the interior fixtures, while the crown is also flanked by protruding lugs for the accommodation of a Stirnpanzer,