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I'm not so sure the Hungarian M50 was easy to find, ever. About fifteen or so years back I got very interested in them and made a point of searching online or at militaria shows (not that I went to...

There are pretty definitive threads on the M50 (one of my personal favourites) here -
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/world-steel-helmets/hungarian-m50-helmet-630489/?highlight=hungarian+m50
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[QUOTE=Sleepwalker;2341021]Menesa Neunkirchen 1953 - a German manufacturer

Well, Germany now (again) but not then. Between 1947 and 1957 the Saarland (where Neunkirchen is situated) as in the...

For new readers, there are full portait pics of a typical 'Yeti' liner in post 25 of this thread

The decal - or the earier stencilled version - was introduced in either 1940 (stencil paint) or 1942 (1942). What is more difficult to ascertain is when it was phased out completely. One source...

This is interesting! I am a fan of all Swedish helmets but I have never taken much notice of the decals (or the helmet covers...) so this is a New Thing for me. I have never noticed any colour...

According to Ted Muhovski, a Bulgarian collector who isn't active these days, large numbers of M36 of all types were refubished with new paint and liners, and most were kept in storage for decades,...

You photos make it awkward to be certain. There are two differences between the Mk3 and Mk4. The Mk3 has side rivets for the chinstrap lugs set almost half way tp the side of the shell -...

The only markings in a mle51 will be white paint/ink showing the maker date and place of production on the inside of the shell. Nothing stamped into the metal. If this stamp is missing (virtually all...

That is a very unusual thing. On first glance I thought the liner might have been Portuguese (from the M917/30 helmet, relined British shells) but it is not (very similar though). Greece did have...

If some people are getting interested in the mle51 it seems worthwhile copying here a post I made *thirteen years ago good grief* which I rarther hope will encourage that interest.

Always nice to...

It is worth pointing out that the liner on this one is pretty much identical to the example I posted earlier, taken from the collection of a Finnish collector. The original webpage does not show the...

Sometimes the simplest answer is the right one - 'refurbished from a relic state'. Money in it, no doubt, ticks all the boxes except SS or paratrooper.

Thanks to all who provided info about the Pappini book. I hadn't thought to try ebay.it . I used to use it and all the other European ebays a few years ago but had enormous trouble logging in now....

Umbertto Pappini’s book - ‘The Helmets – The Italian CTV and the Spanish Civil War.' also known as 'Gli Elmetti Del Corpo Truppe Volontarie Italiano e Della Guerra Civile Spagnola. Published 2015....

The wz67 with wz50 liner is unusual, and I would think fairly rare. I certainly have not seen one. To supplement what we have already here's a quick translation from Jacek Kijak's book on Polish...

I'm interested in the idea that this may be a Finn-reburbished helmet, though not entirely convinced. Is that really a Finnish replacement liner? I haven't seen one like it and really it looks too...

I definately don't claim expertise on Italian helmets, but the shell does look like an M33 (rather than a Bulgar M51) and as we know there were lots of M33 in Spain. The liner certianly isn't...

I would not claim to tell for certain from your photos that this is a Belgian helmet, but from what I can make out it probably is. As far as I know all of the Belgian helmets had the tricolour flash...

Good information, Sleepwalker, thanks very much. It is always better to have references. I do wish everyone (including me sometimes) would pay heed to this, particularly when it concerns something...

Thanks for that, Jack, I have a short attention span re multiple photos of squaddies so gave up - too soon. Interesting to see that, as it is essentially a complete version of the one Adrian posted,...

In my long and bitter experience it will be a long dark night before an ebay seller actually provides some useful knowledge when requested, probably about the same time a composite manufacturer...

Now that's very interesting. I spent quite some time trying to track this thing down a couple of days ago. The quest was not helped by the label being incomplete, and the best I could establish is...

"Was the helmet at the ÖBH actually still worn in such a "composition" during the Gefechtsdienst, during service and in operations, or were the shell and liner accidentally put together at some point...

It seems to me that there is nothing more than convergent evolution - with a portion of conformative similarity for the sake of friend-or-foe recognition - going on here. I've obsessed over tiny...