M40 Heer, with net!

**Eddie** · 12-02-2012, 08:58 PM

I took some better sunlight photos of this helmet today. There looks to be a name written on the inside of the metal band underneath the wool liner, has anyone seen one like it? Maybe the manufacturer? Is there a way to see where/when this helmet was made without removing the liner?

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 12-02-2012 08:58 PM

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**KradSpam** · 12-02-2012, 09:16 PM

Looks like a good salty one. Can you get some close shots of where the net is attached to the liner?

**Eddie** · 12-02-2012, 09:43 PM

Hi Krad,
here is my best effort at showing where the net is connected to the liner, it's stuck into the steel liner. There's also a shot of the net, and I think the dark brown patches is what the netting looked like before all the wear. Were helmets with netting like this only worn on the Western Front?

**KradSpam** · 12-03-2012, 01:38 AM

I've never had a netted lid mate so I'm not much of an expert on them, I'd think they were issued all over though.

**DougB** · 12-03-2012, 02:25 AM

The left side (looking down) on the liner band will have a date stamped, if your careful pull gently back on the chinstrap bale and with your free hand use a small pen flashlight and see if you can see the stamping. But don't remove the liner band! That is blood soaked liner from what I see and you describe. Nice salty complete helmet and the nets a huge plus!

**kylesbullets** · 12-03-2012, 02:29 AM

Whether the liner is rotting or bloodstained, the helmet is nice overall.

**AmericanKraut** · 12-03-2012, 02:37 AM

A very nice helmet a Heer m40 sd is my favorite German lid!

**Eddie** · 12-03-2012, 03:06 AM

Hey, thanks Fellas, much appreciated! Doug, I tried looking for the maker stamping, but I only saw the size stamping, I looked on both sides of the outer liner, pulling the chinstrap bales gently and I saw no stamping for a maker, is that possible? If I have the helmet in front of me the decal and the size stamp are on my left hand side, but I don't see anything on my right hand side, or on the left hand side except for the size stamping. The size stamping is
64 AA(?)
56

**KradSpam** · 12-03-2012, 04:12 AM

humm, aa - alte art / old type? It's more common to see na (neue art / new type) marked bands. I can't remember what that signifies but it is past 3am, so forgive me

**Eddie** · 12-04-2012, 09:01 PM

by KradSpam

humm, aa - alte art / old type? It's more common to see na (neue art / new type) marked bands. I can't remember what that signifies but it is past 3am, so forgive me

hey, no worries! Thanks for the response, I'm gonna try and find that makers mark, I really want to know more about this helmet!