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Odd M42 marking, any help?

Article about: Hello, I recently purchased this helmet and found this marking underneath the rust. It says CKL and has 55 below it. I know the CKL is the manufacturer, and has nothing stamped behind it. Is

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    Hello, I recently purchased this helmet and found this marking underneath the rust.
    It says CKL and has 55 below it.

    I know the CKL is the manufacturer, and has nothing stamped behind it.
    Is the 55 the helmet size? Because the liner has 58 stamped on it.. and the lot number would be in the side of the helmet, not the rear right?

    Either way, a very nice helmet with original liner and chinstrap.
    Helmet never had a decal (so late war production) and after taking it out of an oxalic acid bath, I uncovered the dome stamp aswell!
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    Late war M42 where always stamped in the rear as far as i know, so the 55 would be the remains of the lotnumber.
    The size should be right of the maker stamp, but it seems to have vanished, maybe rusted to much, or bad stamped.
    Your shell would be an size 66 shell, as the size for the liner is the size of the head it would fit, the number on the shell is the size of the shell.

    Regards,
    Adravor

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    Interesting, thanks for the info.
    Anyone here able to find the rest of the lot number with the following info?

    No Decal
    M42
    Steel liner
    CKL 66
    55-- (Looking to find the last 2 digits of this number)

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    Looking at it with a flashlight, holding the flashlight sideways shows small shadows where the 66 should be revealing the remnants of "CKL 66"
    But besides the 55 I can't find any signs that there even ever was anything there.
    Could it just have been 55 as a lot number?

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    After looking at the helmetvault,
    Helmet M42 lotnmbr 5527 has the exact discription of this helmet!
    Light brown leather, dome stamp, white spots on top and half of the circle from the size stamp is gone.
    Only odd thing is that helmet 5527 is CKL64, This here is a CKL66

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    Hi,regarding your lot number there would have been an awful lot of CKL helmets beginning 55 manufactured, the number shows the batch of metal used.
    Whichever lot yours came from could certainly have had mixed sizes and potentially even helmet types at earlier stages of the war eg M38's.
    Good luck trying to figure out the other 2 numbers!
    Hope you enjoy your helmet.

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