SS Helmet heritage from my Unce

**zetdet** · 04-21-2017, 10:03 AM

Hello Guys,

i am Christian from Germany. I got a german helmet as a heritage from my Uncle.

He was living in Berlin and collected WW2 items for a long time.

The helmet has double decals but they were scratched off maybe because in germany this signs are still not allowed to show.

I can still see the SS sign on the left and the party decal in the right. The inside is empty, there is no visible markings, only two letters U and D with white marker, i guess the letters of the original owners name.

My uncle bought this helmet in the 90s, he told me some years ago this hemet was found hidden in a garden house during its demolition in Brandenburg east Germany.

My question to you experts is can this really be a true SS Helmet, and what is the value?

If you need more pictures please let me know.

Thanks in Advance!
best regards

Christian

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 04-21-2017 10:03 AM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**zetdet** · 04-21-2017, 10:22 AM

Sorry, the SS decal is of course in the right and the party decal on the left:-)

**Danmark** · 04-21-2017, 10:39 AM

Sorry Christian but bad news I'm afraid.
Lets start with the shell - no German helmet had red undercoat or primer. Thats a sure indicator of a repaint and it goes downhill from there..... the black paint is postwar applied and decals are copies. Scratched off for reasons you suggest, but more likely a bikers SS copy helmet from the 1970's I would guess. Probably had a foam pad liner at one stage....

But hey, the average man in the street would be convinced.

Regards, Dan

**Blackdog** · 04-21-2017, 10:47 AM

Yep, nothing authentic with this lid.

**zetdet** · 04-21-2017, 12:36 PM

ok thanks, seems he made a bad deal

**FALLSCHIRMJAGER** · 05-07-2017, 01:37 AM

Hello and welcome, sorry my friend but as the gents above have pointed out, this is not an original SS helmet. Sadly a post war re-paint and re-decal job that has then been messed around with for the second/third or forth time in it's life. This lid has sure taken one hell of a beating from the artificer! Leon.