by
Greg Pickersgill
Oh bloody hell, leave the room for a day and come back to find everything you know is wrong. OF COURSE it should have a badge bracket on the front - that was a standard fitting for all the Modelo Z at time of manufacture and there is no reason why it should have been removed, even in the post-Franco years when these helmets were still in use. I should have noticed that myself, so thanks to Woodsnake for having the sense to point this out. AND (worse) he is also right about the two large liner pins - I excuse myself slightly because I have definately seen instances of these Modelo Z with apparently non-standard larger rivets. but they are always much flatter and do not resemble (as these do) the German M35 family liner pins.
I don't think, though, that the paint is necessarily wrong. It appears from your photos to have more in common with Spanish schemes (Navy or Guardia Civil)than German, and the fact that the interior ishows traces of a different scheme is not always a pointer to any skullduggery.
Anyway, I apologise for having misled you - you do not, alas have such a good example of the original Modelo Z as I first asserted. And I wasn't even drunk....
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