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But if Eigentums-helm (like yours) are found with officer Kokarden (like yours) then what are they?  Only one answer left. They have to be F?hnriche Eigentums-helm. They were allowed to wear the officer Kokarden. It makes sense to me that the majority of them, would purchase their own Haube. So when people are swearing up and down that they have handled or seen countless Einjährig-Freiwilliger Pickelhauben with officer Kokarden, they have in fact, been handling  Fähnriche Pickelhauben.

Ok guy here is a rare and unusual one. I believed it to be a private purchase (Eigentums-helm) wartime foot artillery.  It has certain characteristics not normally found. What I discovered is the rich world of Fähnriche Pickelhaubes. -- This one is from a Fähnriche of the foot artillery!

Foot Artillery with all officer fittings except the dome studs. Officer cockades.

  The most numerous comments have been about these cockades.  Can / Did One Year volunteers ever wear officers cockades? Conventional wisdom says yes, some commentary says no. No picture of a OYV with officer cockardes surfaced.  Read the answer to the left and you have it.  There has been an outcry of folks who have handled many helmets and who say  OYV's used officer cockardes. Read the article under article links and you will see the latest. 

What is a Fähnriche? Look at my Q&A page and the article.

Now look at the brim. It is gray metal or silver colored. The studs at the corners are brass.

Ah zinc. Seems that there are many mid-war helmets that used bass covered zinc. Seems like some but not all of the brass color has disappeared on mid-war helmets.  I don't know why yet but it does.  Many of them with no trace of the brass.  I have one helmet where the spike top and pearlring are brass but the spike base has lost its brass color and turned zinc.

Fiberboard mid-war helmet. A replacement, substitute, ersatz.  Remember the source of leather used to be South America.  Kind of tough with the blockade.

The top of the helmet has a metal ring around the spike base. It too is painted.  

Fiber helmets often had this. There is some word that this was for protection but it seems rather apocryphal. 

You can see some brass color coming off the ball.  The ball has two significant cracks in it.  The ball does not unscrew. While tall, it seems to be soldered in places.

Well the answer is in the source documents Das Deutsche Reichsheer pg 111 shows a picture of that spike. 

So this one is rare.  You see a lot of artillery kugelhelm but not like this.