fstop61 Posted July 11, 2014 Share #1 Posted July 11, 2014 Spent the Fourth of July weekend at my sister's in Florida. She gave me a copy of our grandfather posing on a captured German artillery piece- in the background is a pyramid of 12,000 German Pickelhaubes. This was part of a display of captured German equipment on Park Ave near New York's Grand Central Terminal in 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USdog Posted July 11, 2014 Share #2 Posted July 11, 2014 WOW! Very cool pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvmhm Posted July 11, 2014 Share #3 Posted July 11, 2014 But where are they now??? Mark sends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David D Posted July 11, 2014 Share #4 Posted July 11, 2014 I wonder what happened to them after the Display? -Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normaninvasion Posted July 11, 2014 Share #5 Posted July 11, 2014 I wonder what happened to them after the Display? -Dave Maybe Bannerman's got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 11, 2014 Share #6 Posted July 11, 2014 Ran into a guy in Kansas who has an artillery piece like this.He found it at a farm.Hes trying to restore it.He claimed it was once a display in a park after being shown as a bond drive item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VladimirBerkov Posted February 25, 2015 Share #7 Posted February 25, 2015 That's crazy! Yes, I wonder where they all went.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usa1918 Posted February 25, 2015 Share #8 Posted February 25, 2015 There was a long thread on Pickelhaubes.com on this. There were over 10,000 helmets on the pyramid, sent from warehouses in Germany at the end of the war for Liberty Loan Drives. When you bought a certain denomination, you were given a helmet. Collectors call these virtually unissued helmets...Liberty Loan Helmets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usa1918 Posted February 25, 2015 Share #9 Posted February 25, 2015 And another view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve B. Posted February 26, 2015 Share #10 Posted February 26, 2015 Wow. Jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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