M40 Relic Stalingrad

[fallbarbarossa]

Looks like some kid did it but pictures can be deceiving.....

btw...I like relics. It's nice to have a few mixed in with the broader helmet collection.

Me too, to be honest. But I'm not really a big militaria collector. I'm mostly just looking for some cool pieces to go with my Kar98ks. And, since I'm in Stalingrad at the moment, I figured it'd be a good time to pick something up.

[Glenn66]

You may be able to pin it down to a battle.

Well, it was found in Stalingrad. That might be a clue.

[fallbarbarossa]

I'm going to check this out tomorrow. The guys is asking $44, I can probably haggle a bit. Any final thoughts/words of advice? This'll be my first helmet.

Thanks,
Mike

[Glenn66]

Just get it. For $44 you can't go too far wrong.

[Wagriff]

It's a Relic...if you get it and decide you don't like the white paint lines on it-remove them...The Shell is solid enough...

[fallbarbarossa]

It's a Relic...if you get it and decide you don't like the white paint lines on it-remove them...The Shell is solid enough...

Those lines are strange. I kind of thought that they might be from goggles which rotted on and were pulled off? Something like that maybe?

[robin morley]

Well, it was found in Stalingrad. That might be a clue.

Sadly many of these relics are shipped in from other less glamorous battle sites, sold as Stalingrad /Somme /Kursk etc found and the price to the unsuspecting is quadrupled. However as Glenn said for $44 you can't really go wrong. As the vendor is asking a reasonable price I would suspect that there is a chance that this was actually found near Stalingrad.