Hey, resurrecting your thread from a few years back, I hope you don't mind. I recently aquired this (what I think to be) modelo z helmet, painted black for what I assumed was to disguise it as a german helmet. But it seems to have some sort of brick red paint under neath, not sure what that may have been. From the research I've done its got the brass seperate vent holes which may make it an earlier model, and although in rough shape the liner band is all leather and all the liner pins have rounded heads and seem to be brass to the best of my knowledge.
The liner is in rough shape, there is only one tattered pad left under neath, and no string. Someone has also carved their intials into it, maybe the owner but I kind of doubt it. Anyways, not sure what info can be added, just maybe whether its even a spanish helmet, as its missing the badge clip, and also doesnt seem to have any remnensce of green paint.
I could not find anything else that had matching liner pins, the finnish helmets were similar, and some austro hungarian helmets were also similar but the modelo seemed to match best.
Looking forward to hearing from you guys and can always post more pictures.
cheers and all the best.
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