hi is this helmet look ok to some of the more experinced members? i have a chance at buying this and would like some advice on this helmet for this might be my first luft helmet, here is what i know about it, M42. 80% decal. Liner present & solid, no chinstrap. Shell marked 2576. Aluminum liner band dated 1940. i have only seen one of these inperson befor. any help would be greatly app. thanks john
can some one help me out on this blade identification? i have two blades from when i bought this dagger with the same makers mark, difference is one mark is small and one is big, small is clear, and the bigger one is darker like a frosted color? would this represent different time periods? thanks for any help, john
This is a photo taken at Dachau. It shows the officer version which is identical to the enlisted version with the addition of aluminum piping.
Bob Hritz
German ZZ35 pull igniter ,CUTAWAY
Used with...S-mine,Stock mine,Schumine 44,as a boobytrap dexice in Anti tank mines,demolition charges and others
Pull pressure required to function..4-5kg
Markings... dms 43
I have a few ww2 era mine fuzes and other ordnance as cutaways if your interested in seeing more just let me know
This is more a "scrap yard" find than an "attic" find. It happened 12 years ago.
I was visiting an industrial zone in the suburbs of Madrid with a fellow collector where all the scrap yards of the area are concentrated. These huge scrap yards have mostly old crashed cars and some metal leftovers for recycling. We used to make visits once a month just in case we found interesting military vehicles for sale, as someone had told us that only a year earlier you could buy ex-spanish army american MB willys jeeps or WC-52 trucks, saving them from the torch.
We were driving around and suddenly from the distance we saw what was literally a mountan full of helmets! The adrenaline rush was something i´ll never forget. Upon closer inspection, we discovered the mountain consisted of some spanish civil War m-21 and M-26 helmets, some post war american M1 type helmets, but mostly spanish Z-42, german look alike helmets.
We were nevertheless excited, as the lot looked really old. We started climbing the mountain and joking about how nice it would be if they would be german helmets. After all we knew Franco had received some amount of war material, including helmets, from Nazi Germany. Suddenly, I stepped on a huge, german M-35 helmet. Yes, it was a real german M-35 helmet!
As you can imagine, after finding that gem, we decided to "dig" for more. We spent the next fifteen days coming back every afternoon and literally moving the mountain from one area to the other by the system of climbing on the top and inspecting every helmet, one by one, and throwing the helmets to a side, thus forming a new, filtered helmet mountain.
We managed to find 38 german M-35 helmets of different sizes, complete with original liners but with post war chinstraps. Some had the Spanish eagle attached to the front, but others were perfectly clean.
I kept one specimen for me, an ET 68 sized helmet, only having to add an original chinstrap. The rest were sold for a good amount of money to a militaria dealer.
The owner of the scrap yard did not know what he had, and he thought we were crazy when we asked him permission to "look" in the helmet mountain. "Why would you do that?" he said. "All the helmets are the same. Just take as many as you like from the base of the mountain". Nevertheless, he agreed, and charged us the equivalent of 9 euros for each helmet.
The second photo shows the two mountains, the one on the back had already been checked. The last two photos are of the helmet I kept (and still have, of course). I really felt as if I was in an allied depot in 1945. The experience was magnificent.
By the way, we also found some well marked german bags, of which I kept a couple. They are black leather bags with shoulder straps that I think are ordnance related, maybe to store a telescopic sight, but never bothered to find out. I will take them out of the boxes and photograph one for you folks to help me identify them.
I apologize if my story was too boring and hope you like the photos.
Regards,
Gus
ss eagle (cupal) with 3 original prongs (2 of them reattached)
a rare one
299 euro
This time with the pictures
Can anybody tell me if this wehrmacht uniform is real and what the value would be? I am thinking about buying it.
Thanks!
