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02-16-2016 09:11 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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I have the cork version but it's too dark now to make decent pictures, I'll do some tomorrow.
The aluminium helmets were also used by the Dutch army in the 1950's & '60's although I don't know if these were made in Germany. I think the Belgians and Israeli's used them too.
The pic shows a Dutch army Sherman Dozer and its crew, 1960.
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Nice period pic!!! and an even nicer pair of helmets!! to the untrained eye there is very little to tell the original WW II American from the West German made examples.. even less so with the fibre type!!!and as your comparison shows...also your Fibre one has a top line of stitching along the rim band of leather (as the U.S. original) ... the aluminium dome type has the rivets instead!!
ps your display head looks to have had a little accident!! owch!!!
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The display head was modeled on Eric Roberts ;-) But it's probably why I got it for free.
I don't know the maker of my example; it's only marked with the size (59). The M38 is a Sears Saddlery size 7 3/8, a scarce maker in a rare large size.
Quite a lot of younger & inexperienced collectors got fooled by the post-war helmets, thinking they were WW2-era. But by now they have become a bit scarce on their own right and you don't see them as much anymore.
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Nice tanker helmets lads !
Made in West Germany but never bought or issued by the Bundeswehr, if any are seen in period images of BW personal wearing, they would of been "borrowed" from other NATO forces probably during large scale exercises.....many a U.S. woodland/British DPM cammo helmet covers came this way !
Prost ! Steve.
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