heer M40 helmet..opinions

[lucabrnroma]

hi all...i'd like to know your opinions on this helmet for sale..i 'm totally unexpert about headgear but i'd like to make a surprise gift to a friend of mine for Christmas...it's a m40 Q62 with broken chainstrap...what do you think about it and about a good price to buy
best regards and thanks a lot

[helmet2id]

I don't like the decal, it has application damage (the horizontal split 1/3 up from the bottom of the transfer) which suggests to me postwar application. Jim G.

[lucabrnroma]

thanks a lot jim

[FALLSCHIRMJAGER]

Hi there , I think you have a very nice quist "big foot" HEER decal on a nice M40. At first I thought there was something wrong with the printing of the adlers foot but then I noticed it was a deep scratch distorting it! The decal was also slightly creased when applied but I still like this one as being a good helmet.(by the way , you listed this in the wrong sub-section as it is most definitely not a "relic"!!) Leon.

[lucabrnroma]

opsss sorry...please move in the right section...i'm really unexpert about helmets...also post in the wrrong section ahahah

[FALLSCHIRMJAGER]

I don't like the decal, it has application damage (the horizontal split 1/3 up from the bottom of the transfer) which suggests to me postwar application. Jim G.

Hi Jim , you could well be right about the decal , it certainly is an original one in my opinion though and looks to have been placed on the helmet some time ago , whether or not it is period is open to debate. Leon.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Moved over for you.

[lucabrnroma]

thanks adrian

[Adrian Stevenson]

No problem.

Something niggles me over the decal too.

Cheers, Ade.

[Lidman]

I have to agree with Jim in regards to the decal.
Can't say I've ever seen one with that kind of application damage before either.
It lends itself to the thought of being a post war applied decal that has suffered due to being folded or creased in storage,
prior to application.

Brad.