SS M42 steel helmet

**iron** · 11-28-2008, 10:58 PM

hi just bought this and am verry pleased with it
would like to here youre comments

andrewds@ymail.com

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 11-28-2008 10:58 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Paul D** · 11-29-2008, 12:34 AM

Andrew can you post some close up's of the decal ?

**iron** · 11-29-2008, 08:53 AM

hi, i cant seem to get a better photo of the decal than the 5th picture shown.
You are the second person to be supicious of this helmet
i paid alot of money for it?
pls send your views thanks

**iron** · 11-29-2008, 08:59 AM

This is the battle damage apparently?

**iron** · 11-29-2008, 10:17 AM

its a ckl 66
3027 ?

**iron** · 11-29-2008, 10:47 AM

does anyone know what mite have caused the wear naturally?

**Adrian Stevenson** · 11-29-2008, 12:28 PM

Hi Andrew, I have edited your thread and placed the pics direct in it rather than having links to your album. Makes life a bit easier than clicking on the links.

Cheers, Ade.

**Adrian Stevenson** · 11-29-2008, 01:13 PM

Going back now the appearance of the decal. I don't see this as "natural wear" as such. Different decals sometimes wear in slightly different ways. But I think that this one may have suffered somewhat due to the way the helmet has been preserved or cleaned.

The book "SS Steel" by Kelly Hicks is the best book on the market on SS helmets and well worth buying.

But this decal is so worn it is very hard to attribute a maker to the decal.

Cheers, Ade.

**iron** · 11-29-2008, 01:19 PM

hi
i emailed espenlaub this morning asking about it
maybe dimas will post some information on it later

**Dimas** · 11-29-2008, 07:57 PM

Is I've handled this helmet in my collection before I got better one, I can say that this helmet a true one, just a cleaned example from a surface rusting ( with oxalic acid) and a leather part of the liner was changed by me, due of original liner is gone due of time, but it's original- not perfect in condition, but for sure original. That kind of things is very hard to understand without having them in the hand-inspection