Question Help with my Son’s unusual M35
Hi, need a little help with this helmet. First off, this is my 14 yo sons helmet. He has been collecting ww2 for about 3 years now. We spend most weekends together at flea markets, pawn shops, gun shows, antique stores and the such looking for a little memorabilia treasure. He doesnt have a big collection but it is fairly nice for only 3 years and a very limited amount of money. He works cutting grass and doing some custodial work at the local Fire Academy and we split the cost of most things he buys. We came upon this helmet last weekend at a gun show. Not much of a story from the man we bought it from, just that he had got it and a couple of other helmets out of a barn. He was asking 150 but we got him down to 125. My son and I are very casual collectors but we knew it was a M35 helmet. It was coated with shiny black Krylon and had surgical tape swas on each side. The inside was fairly rusted and had a plastic hardhat type liner. My son and I agreed that we wouldnt be doing any further damage to the helmet if we stripped the Kyrlon and painted it an original color just to hang with his Kar 98 and his pennant. We started stripping it down with some 4.0 steel wool and lacquer thinner. After a couple hours and some elbow grease we were quite surprised as to what we found.
This is what we think the helmet is .though were just grasping at straws here Its an M35 ET66 single decal helmet with depot/field repaint and trench swas painted on each side. Please give me your thoughts my boy is very excited and anxious to find out if we are close to being right or not. THANKS
This is what we think the helmet is .though were just grasping at straws here Its an M35 ET66 single decal helmet with depot/field repaint and trench swas painted on each side. Please give me your thoughts my boy is very excited and anxious to find out if we are close to being right or not. THANKS
