Article about: Gday All, Here is my new lid...thanks to Sandgroper!!! this helmet has certainly done the rounds of Australia recently and has been in the collection of two Aussie members, before crossing t
Here is my new lid...thanks to Sandgroper!!! this helmet has certainly done the rounds of Australia recently and has been in the collection of two Aussie members, before crossing the continent to me!
Now, I would like to throw a few Hypothesis out there....im not one to try and make out something its not, but please bear with me!
The liner string has been replaced (obviously) but does it look like a period leather boot lace? the chin strap is a strange one, with what "LOOKS LIKE" a corpse cut....maybe, probaly not...but could it be a period replacement, though I have not seen a german chinstrap like this...maybe it was taken from another helmet as our Soldat was replacing his liner string with a scrounged leather boot lace....one likes to ponder!!! liner has a repair, maybe period....many would run and hide at these abominations to an otherwise perfect lid, not in my collection some would shout over their shoulder as they run....me, I find them food for thought!
Anyway, I am very happy with it, the above postulations occur to me whilst laying in bed next to my blissfully unaware wife as i look at the the lid on my bedside table waiting for the medication to kick in!!!
Any thoughts or comments on my hypothesis would be appreciated
Thankyou for bearing with me... Tongue firmly planted in cheek!.....more to follow
Thanks all....the shell itself is great...paint is good, love the texture of it!!! The internals I personaly believe are period bits and peices and add to the character of this lid!
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