Who is the best person to apraise a ww2 german helmet??thankyou

[Danmark]

Andreas from Brisvegas ....please take note.
Your last thread was closed and this one will soon follow suit - and all because like the last one, it quickly becomes a slanging match and on this forum that is not on.
IF you have a super rare, one off helmet that defies all the established norms, then good on you - the problem is ANY appraiser will look to those norms to do his / her appraisal. ANY value your "hybrid" has, is at this point in time in your eyes alone. I am a toolmaker and stamping ANY sheet metal with hundreds of differing size stamps makes no sense and gives it no special collectability ( unless you find someone who adores it as much as you do - good luck! )

[AMTG]

Ok, do we have an M18, that presumably would have been made before 1933, I do say presumably to be fair....so IF these stamps were applied, they would have been to a formed helmet....

Are there any half stamps around the rim??? If it were made of a flat peice of steel, then formed, I'd....me personaly, would expect to see half stamps around the rim, and more distortion of the RZM marks during the helmet formation process

[Adrian Stevenson]

Sorry, this thread has no future to it.

Enjoy your helmet for what it is.

Cheers, Ade.

[DougB]

Thanks Ade. I went to bed early last night, missed the fun.