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01-28-2013 05:25 AM
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
Maybe I'm crazy, but that national eagle on the liner and the serial number on the dome are not suppose to be there???!!?? I think this is an M17 btw. Are there any other markings on the skirt?
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
Looks like a 'messed with' helmet, sorry to say. The eagle stamp in the liner
is bogus, and the one-time decal is a round bottom fake, IMO.........
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
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Sir Payne
Maybe I'm crazy, but that national eagle on the liner and the serial number on the dome are not suppose to be there???!!?? I think this is an M17 btw. Are there any other markings on the skirt?
The batch number in the dome area is legit. It does look to be an M17. The inside looks to have original paint, but the outside doesn't appear to, but an outside pic in natural light would help. As Steve said, a repro decal was applied and was removed at somepoint down to the steel. And, yes, stamps like the one on the reverse of the finger is bogus. They never used those stamps. They are common repro stamps used to "sex up" helmets.
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
Bad stamp, shell and lot number in the dome are A Ok.
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
Looks like a Transitionial M16? I dislike it though, doesnt look original.
Cheers, Evan
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
Agree that it is a messed with M17 sadly.
Brad.
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
Hi looks to be a messed with M16 to me none the chin strap fiting points on the shell as found on M16 helmets,on the M17 the chin strap is fitted to the liner
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
I have the same stamp in the liner of my SA helmet. I posted it a while ago (in DECEMBER 2011). Bob Coleman told us that the stamp was used by a collector/dealer in Chicago, Jack Baumgartner, in the '50's through the '70's, to identify his helmets for some reason. The shell/liner configuration is fine. With the metal banded liner sans chin strap bales in a classic M16 shell it is known as an M17. The paint on the interior of the shell appears to be the original WWI factory paint. Whether the exterior over-paint is period or not I can't say. Obviously, someone was either "digging" for decals, or removed repros that had been put on. Anyway, the Adler stamp is from no earlier than the '50's, and was put on by a US dealer. Jim G.
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Re: m18 ET66 looking for opinions
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helmet2id
I have the same stamp in the liner of my SA helmet. I posted it a while ago (in DECEMBER 2011). Bob Coleman told us that the stamp was used by a collector/dealer in Chicago, Jack Baumgartner, in the '50's through the '70's, to identify his helmets for some reason. The shell/liner configuration is fine. With the metal banded liner sans chin strap bales in a classic M16 shell it is known as an M17. The paint on the interior of the shell appears to be the original WWI factory paint. Whether the exterior over-paint is period or not I can't say. Obviously, someone was either "digging" for decals, or removed repros that had been put on. Anyway, the Adler stamp is from no earlier than the '50's, and was put on by a US dealer. Jim G.
Interesting info Jim.
Too bad there is no more militaria dealers in Chicago
Bad for me.
chris
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