M16 Hand Painted Decals

**wild bill** · 05-07-2019, 08:34 PM

I made an offer for this helmet to an antique shop and he sold it to me! WB

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 05-07-2019 08:34 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**wild bill** · 05-07-2019, 08:38 PM

One side has the backward swastica and other the German Cross. Don't know how to make pics bigger? It's got a crack in it from concusion bomb or something but it's totaly cool. Very many paint jobs and is salty! WB

**HoundsTooth** · 05-07-2019, 10:25 PM

Visual Guide to Upload Photos

I'm afraid WB we're gonna need you to master uploading bigger photos!
Nick

**MAP** · 05-08-2019, 04:15 AM

At best it is some type of Vet Art, at worst....post war art project

Even then, without some provenance we will never really know.

**wild bill** · 05-12-2019, 11:51 PM

In Bair book, they said it was a machine gunners insignia! Didn't say what service. But I've seen pis of old parades where the swastica was backward on flags. WB

**wild bill** · 05-13-2019, 12:00 AM

bigger pics!

**wild bill** · 05-13-2019, 12:05 AM

**wild bill** · 05-13-2019, 12:15 AM

Not sure what I did to get bigger pic? These were off a computor file?

**AndyM35** · 05-13-2019, 02:05 AM

Sometimes those cracks can also be from the helmet being buried in a cold climate and then the freezing and thawing out of the soil from winter onwards.

**MAP** · 05-13-2019, 02:50 AM

by wild bill

Not sure what I did to get bigger pic? These were off a computor file?

When you open the file on your PC, right click and pick Properties. What is the size?

From the one photo there is a lot going on. Lot's of paint colors (light green, White/tan) then throw in the Balken cross and backwards swaz and I still think it is a bit of Vet Art. Maybe painted and lost/discarded only to be dug up decades later?

What is the provenance on the helmet? Where was it found?