i am pretty sure that this one is a fake, as i don't think i'm lucky enough to stumble upon the real thing.
but anyway here goes, leastways if it is fake, i'll add it to the fake gallery
thanks in advance
-sean
i have a steel helmet which i have owned since 1960 which i thought was a relic from ww2.it is olive drab in colour,has a complete liner which has a back neck vinyl cover.on the front inside edge is the number 2 in white paint.
i thought the helmet was japanese but now think different that it could be romanian from the 1930s.
i now wish to sell it and need to put an accurate description of the article.i attach 4 photos showing the helmet in question.
any advice from members would be appreciated.
regards ross
First dig on a new site yesterday. Not a battlefield as such - a former WW1 PoW camp and pre-war territorial tented camp. Since then it has been purely farm land, the hutted camp having been dismantled shortly after the war. The fields have all been ploughed regularly so not much in the way of surface material as most of it seems to have been ploughed in over the 90 years of farming.
The area is well-known but largely unexplored from a detecting point of view. Thankfully, the site was also well-photographed at the time so identifying suitable likely sites is reasonably straight forward.
So, I had a quick recce and below is what I found, right in the middle of a recently cut barley field....
.....the metal cylinder is a Swandown branded lipstick (thought it was a swagger stick top when it came up!); the item on the left is the remains of a period fork/spoon/knife; the small winged badge with the Spanish flag emblem has "IBERIA" underneath it. Iberia Airways was only known as Iberia from 1927-29 so I'm assuming it's from this period; the small round disc is a lead seal of some sort. It has some foreign wording around the outside of one side along with a rampant lion and crown coat of arms, language not known by me (I speak French, German & English)- reverse has "10" and what looks like "Cromer" of similar (not Kroner) around the outside.
So, nothing too earth-shatteringly exciting but nevertheless interesting. Any light that can be shed on the lipstick and lead seal would be appreciated. I have found a 1948 advert for Swandown lipstick but wondered if it pre-dated that time.
How on earth this mixed bag ended up in the middle of the field I do not know but it looks promising for future finds. Back out tomorrow......
All I have are these pictures, don’t know where it came from. Can anyone identify?
Sorry to be pain, but this has also just been offered to me and as I have no idea if what I'm looking at is real or not I again ask you to please have a look and give me your opinions. Any idea at value?
Thank you.
Tom
PS
Only have this one photo, again excuse the quality.
