Click on the banner to join the excellent German Helmet Walhalla forum where you can chat with hundreds of collectors from all over the world. See you there.
M35 ET62, named. Advice needed.
Andy
what i see is cool.
Impossible to have those marks if the liner was placed in postwar time since no head would have been into that helmet after the war.
Now i am really positive thinking that it's a period swap. It means that the leather, albeit not from the expected sub-supplier, belongs to that liner band since long time.
Thanks Andrea
That's great and thanks for taking the time and trouble with this. The fact the liner is wrong size, wrong maker and the rear seam is out of place gave me some concern.
However that was a great tip of yours (I'm glad it was a reinforced liner!) and I guess a lot of non-regulation things can happen in wartime.
Thanks again.
Andy
Quote from Quist64 on April 10, 2020, 5:12 pmThanks Andrea
That's great and thanks for taking the time and trouble with this. The fact the liner is wrong size, wrong maker and the rear seam is out of place gave me some concern.
However that was a great tip of yours (I'm glad it was a reinforced liner!) and I guess a lot of non-regulation things can happen in wartime.
Thanks again.
Andy
You're welcome Andy ! glad to have helped
Looks interesting and I'd agree that it's most likely a period swap, is the inner ring made of aluminium of zinc plated steel? In the picture it looks like steel, maybe the alu one broke and that's why they took that one. Also the inner ring should have the size stamped into it, too.
Luis