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easternwarfront
Hi!
You have an original ww2 period hungarian made but finnish issued helmet shell. DM 62 means that this helmet was produced in Budapest by MÁVAG factory (Magyar Állami Vas-, Acél- és Gépgyár). In Hungary this modell was regularized as 35M (and not M35 because of Hungarian language) and examples were stamped MÁVAG 62, 64, 66, 68 or GY 64, 66, 68. Only MÁVAG produced size 62 helmets anyway. Helmets for Finnland were marked as DM 62, 64, 66, 68 (Datieren MÁVAG) and DR 64, 66, 68 (Datieren Rába) without any national marking so the use of royal hungarian coat of arms was not allowed on these helmets though the unique rear loop was yet applied despite the government's efforts to conceal the origin of the 75.000 helmets. In Finnland this model was issued as M38 however it was used in the continuation war and not in the winter war. Liner system basically is the standard M27 type hungarian modell (metal band with 3 leather pads, D-rings with chinstrap) but in Finnland these hungarian helmets were heavily modified, overpainted, relined, repaired and reissued so helmet liners and paint are quite chaotic but generally the original ww2 color is rather ike the german early applegreen (darker and greyer compared to the hungarian field green-brown) and postwar paint is referred as dark matte grey.
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