Help Identifying this British type helmet please

**Poccur** · 04-15-2011, 05:57 PM

Purchased this helmet from a blurry type picture and now I am playing ID the purchase. The chin strap is a two parts and the clasp pushes together. It has a rim but the attachment for the bails is different to any other I have seen.
Anyone able to throw some light on this please?

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Maybe it is common as dirt but I have not seen one exactly the same.
Cheers
Poccur

**NickD** · 04-15-2011, 06:03 PM

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**Poccur** · 04-15-2011, 06:31 PM

Thank you Sir!!

**tinlid** · 04-15-2011, 06:58 PM

Hi,
It's a Dutch helmet, virtually a copy of the British MkII, I think they used them in the 50's or 60's.
Aaron

**mk1rceme** · 04-15-2011, 09:54 PM

Yep Dutch, Made by Verblifa for civil defense purposes.

**Poccur** · 04-16-2011, 04:04 AM

Thanks all

So the question is what liner? A MKII? I know this risks a 'restoration thread' and being consigned down below but I am just asking what WOULD be the correct liner? Did not say I would

**bichon** · 04-16-2011, 05:01 AM

Hi
here is your helmet:
HOLANDÉS MK2
cordially
Didier

**Poccur** · 04-16-2011, 12:22 PM

Thanks to you all for the input.

I really wish this thing could talk. You have to wonder how/why a Dutch civil defence helmet ended up in Virginia. It could be as simple as a surplus buy from a vacationing tourist but in its 55year life who knows how many twists and turns to end up here.