Italian M33 helmet - war or postwar issue?
Article about: Hello everyone this is one of the relic helmets in my collection. I have bought it long ago from a seller in Turin (Italy). He told me that the helmet is ww2 issue although I am not convince
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Pictures of the interior liner and chin strap would help (or Doh...is there none since it is a relic).
There are others here with much more knowledge on M33 (they are a minefield to pin down for me), but not a paint scheme I have encountered before on wartime lids.
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
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I agree with MAP: more pics will be helpful, and the paint is... weird.
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these helmet where used in the Spanish civil war too and often painted over.
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geelong
these helmet where used in the Spanish civil war too and often painted over.
That's true, but the Spanish M33's are darker, and should bear the 1st type rivets. This one has a strange paint, maybe because someone used oil or something like that on it...
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Mmmm... Without liner it is more difficult. Anyway, the keys is often the rivets; at a glance they seem to me post war type, but to be sure I need some close up of them.
Honestly, I think it is probably a post war M 33 (FM 60 stamp); is the F 11 applied on the inner, rear skirt?
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Yes, F11 is stamped on the rear inner skirt. Tomorrow I will try to make some close-up photos of the interior. Thank you very much for the info.
Best regards
Sever (Romania)
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Sever, take some pics of the outer side of the rivets (air vents). Sure is it F 11 and not P 11?
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