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Hello I’m new here. I don’t know much about helmets. Could you guys please help me to identify if this helmet and the wire is real ?

 

https://imgur.com/a/wZgdnoy Here are more pictures.

any help is appreciated

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It is a fake...

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see how the dust looks like. ...the way it looks like

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Welcome Tropen.

i posted all photos for discussion also because when the link will expire so the topic will be useless

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oh I’d didn’t know that. Thank you very much for your efforts and help !

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So you say the wire is fake and the helmet to ? I was pretty confident that the helmet is real. But I was not sure about the wire. Crazy how good they make those fakes. Either way thank you.

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The shell and liner are good , just the wire has been added post war. Maybe even the liner was added later. Hard to see the rivets from the photos.

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Helmet “Dust” added to the whole surface . . . Then strategically removed from the non-wired section to leave what it’s intended to be “ghosting” under the wire.

Lousy effort

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Quote from tropen38 on April 2, 2020, 7:36 am

So you say the wire is fake and the helmet to ? I was pretty confident that the helmet is real. But I was not sure about the wire. Crazy how good they make those fakes. Either way thank you.

Sorry i didn't specify it. i was referring only about the wire, right.

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It’s unbelievable how good these fakes are in my opinion. That’s probably the reason I sold all my militaria stuff that was not from friends or family in the first place. These fakes get to good for me. Thank all of you guys for helping me out and explain what makes it fake.

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