Out of collection SS helmet with chicken wire

**lakeman81** · 07-21-2018, 03:42 AM

Hi Guys,

looking at the whole collection trying to determine authenticity of the helmets.

Out of collection SS helmet with chicken wire

ET 64 stamp...

Please advise

Thx Lakeman

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-21-2018 03:42 AM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**MAP** · 07-21-2018, 04:33 AM

Sorry...All bad! Fake decal (round bottom fake?)

A camo, wired SS helmet if real? Would be a down payment on a house

**HoundsTooth** · 07-21-2018, 04:36 AM

I'm happy to be proved wrong on this, but to me the decal looks like a round bottom fake with artificial ageing.
Do you have the lot number?
Thanks
Nick

EDIT - posted at the same time as MAP....

**MAP** · 07-21-2018, 04:41 AM

by HoundsTooth

I'm happy to be proved wrong on this, but to me the decal looks like a round bottom fake with artificial ageing.
Do you have the lot number?
Thanks
Nick

EDIT - posted at the same time as MAP....

Actually you were 3 min later than me Nick! LoL! Just busting your chops! Well done on your analysis.

**rbminis** · 07-21-2018, 05:08 AM

The fake aging to the decal does not help it's case either.
Ralph.

**Schwerpunkt** · 07-21-2018, 11:15 AM

all junk just like the others , hope the owner did not pay real prices and secondly I hope he told you they are all copies.

**HoundsTooth** · 07-21-2018, 11:25 AM

by MAP

Actually you were 3 min later than me Nick! LoL! Just busting your chops! Well done on your analysis.

Yeah, i spent some time looking at the decal and then other ET decals until i decided it definitely was a bad one.
Actually i think it is quite easy to tell, but i didn't want to be 'that' person who gives wrong advice - it's always a continual learning process.
Nick

**BrodieBartfast** · 07-21-2018, 11:25 AM

Soldier of Fortune in the UK are selling these for £225 a pop, minus the chicken wire.

M42 Original Helmet with SS single decal

The consensus seems to be that they are original shells, but that everything else is a postwar embellishment. They seem to be rather popular with re-enactors.

B.B.

**Danmark** · 07-21-2018, 11:58 AM

by BrodieBartfast

Soldier of Fortune

More like "soldier of misfortune"

**BrodieBartfast** · 07-21-2018, 12:09 PM

In all fairness, they're not selling them as authentic SS helmets, although the way they word it alludes to the possibility of them being the real deal.

B.B.