A great WW1 Photo with Lugers

Ron Wood · 04-30-2004, 12:18 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />I wonder why in all the other photos I've seen they had spikes and these guy's don't ?
<hr /></blockquote>Because they belong to an artillery unit. These units wore the distictive ball top pickelhaube that was representative of the "cannon ball" projectile. Very much like a branch insignia today.

04-30-2004, 12:18 AM	#10
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,051 Thanks: 1,119 Thanked 5,286 Times in 1,728 Posts	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">I wonder why in all the other photos I've seen they had spikes and these guy's don't ? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Because they belong to an artillery unit. These units wore the distictive ball top pickelhaube that was representative of the "cannon ball" projectile. Very much like a branch insignia today. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

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