And look at that one over there, wearing that beautiful waste-paper basket on his head like a pickelhaube!
The pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia. and its use slowly spread to other German principalities.
This helmet is missing its topspitze, or "spiked adornment," for which this type of helmet is named pickelhaube, or "pick cap."
An additional distinction of this very rare pickelhaube is to be found in the special "bosses" used to attach the officer's brass scale chinstrap to the helmet skull.
Few relics of military history are as striking as the German Pickelhaube.