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Some of you might know me from the edged weapons forum, as I am primarily a dagger-guy. However, last falI I came across my first helmet.
It´s funny how sometimes the stuff we collect just seem to turn up when you talk to people about your hobby. I came across a guy whos father used to steal ammunition and helmets from german bunkers as a kid. Naturally I asked if he still had these things. He replied that he had one helmet, but he doubted that it would be something I would be interested in. He told me not to get my expectations up as it was old and rusty.
To be honest, as a dagger guy with, at the time, limited knowledge about helmets, I thought the same when he pulled it out from his garage.
However I still bought it because I liked the fact that it was a local woodwork find. He also signed a letter telling the story of where his father stole the helmet. Second hand story, I know, but still better than no provenance. I took a picture of the helmet and letter outside the house when I picked it up as «proof».
Sad thing though, he told me he had thrown two other helmets on the landfill a couple of months earlier when cleaning out his late fathers house(!). They were the same with the net on top. I drove to the landfill and asked every single worker there if they had found them, but it was hopeless.
Here are my thoughts on the helmet:
M35 DD Luftwaffe drop tail eagle.
Reinforced aluminium liner marked D.R.P Schuberth-Werk K - G Braunschweig 1938.
Makermark is ET 66, lot number 3768.
Leather stamped size 58.
Green camo paint and old fish net.
Possible old white camo under?
Domestamp: "Fliegerhorst-Kom(or Komp). Probably for Kommandantur or Kompanie.
FP-number: L12790
Please note the white letters IS/IC right next to the lot number. I guess its part of a name or something.
Newspaper under the liner leather.
Chinstrap is shortened.
A few thoughts on the net. I understand they are highly debated and that it is hard to know when they were applied. I have asked an old colleague who is very much into fishing. He is certain that this is the kind of net they used to trap large groups of fish. I believe so too. Fishing was a huge industry here on the west coast of Norway those days. Combined with the helmets history I personally have no doubt it was applied during the war. I have applied some photos that shows the interaction between the paint and the net.
As you can see on the one picture there is a newspaper under the liner. The leather is very dry and I´m afraid to damage the leather if I try to bend it any more.
I think I will leave the newspaper where it is.
Even though I thought this helmet initially was old crap I have since realized that I did quite well on my first helmet.
All the best
MrMiler
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A Soviet flag, advertised as being WW2 pattern, although Espenlaub admitted it could be an immediate postwar example. Unlike almost every other flag of this type I’ve seen, the hammer and sickle and star are painted/stenciled on, as opposed to being stitched. The whole thing has a very Spartan, no frills look to it. It has no hanging attachments other than a stitched-over sleeve on the left edge.
Would be interested to know if this is likely to have seen use with the Red Army or other services during the war. Even if it hasn’t, it’s a nice example in my opinion, and it displays very well with my Soviet WW2 small arms collection.
Regards, B.B.
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