Pickelhaube
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The Pickelhaube, also Pickelhelm, is a spiked leather or metal helmet that was worn in the 19th and 20th centuries by Prussian and German soldiers of all ranks as well as firefighters and police. Alth
Bavarian Officer Pickelhaube c. 1900
Prussian police leather Pickelhaube
Staff captain, Russian artillery, wearing a Pickelhaube, c. 1858
Russian Pickelhauben of the 1849 version, with detachable plumes, 1853
Shako
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A shako or shacko is a tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a peak, and sometimes tapered at the top. It is usually adorned with an ornamental plate or badge on the front, metallic or otherwis
Pickelhaube
…Pickel, lit. 'point, pickaxe' and Haube, lit. 'bonnet', a general word for "headgear" During the 1830s, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia decided to replace the shako infantry caps. For this, he commissioned General Lev Ivanovich Kiel, a member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, to design the new headdress for…
A shako of the French troupes de marine, c. 1829
A British soldier wearing a shako in c. 1803
Hungarian hussars wearing shakos in 1849
Shako of the French Royal Guard as worn from 1816 to 1830