Said to be real, your help is appreciated!

[Wiking]

Hello, my very first post here, please let me know if im doing anything wrong here (wrong section or so) and i will correct it as soon as i can!

First of all, i just recently started collecting various items from WW2, German things mainly. Slowly slowly i learn what to look for, and what to avoid, but it is difficult! I will probably ask a million questions when im here, but from what i´ve seen there seem to be a lot of knowledge here, so i hope to learn more!

Anyway, here´s what the post is about, this is not mine, just helping a fella to maybe confirm if this is a genuine helmet or a reproduction. I post the pictures i got from him, hopefully they are enough to tell. He was told it was real, he got it out of a house clearing (gramma?) besides that he has no info. Personally i think it looks great, but maybe too good? And only based on my visual memory, i dont think i have ever seen the runes placed on the left side, and the markings i think should be both letters and numbers, at least all RZM i have seen has been that way. But again, i dont have a lot of knowledge so i thought i post it here and get your opinion!

[cricketchris1944]

Sorry not a good helmet.
the decals are fake .
post-war paint
chris

[Gunny Hartmann]

Sorry even me as a helmet novice can tell this is bad, the decals are on the wrong sides for a start and the liner pins are a different colour to the shell, a frankenstein helmet!..

[NDShooter]

Like what everyone else said a fake, that swastika doesnt even look uniform.

[Paul D]

Please check out the SS decal threads in the Helmet section you will quickly see that these two decals are real howlers , the runic decal is awful.

[Wiking]

Thanks guys, well i thought the decals looked a bit wierd, and the one thing o reacted to first was the runes beeing on the wrong side, Will tell him to check the thread out himself! Thank you!

[MD Helmets]

Terrible fake.

[colt45]

new paint...new decals

[Sir Payne]

To quote Doug, "...it should look correct within the first 5 seconds"

[Wiking]

Yeah i told him and gave him a link to this thread, apparently he found a buyer on it... Well, even though it´s not mine i still appreciate your input! I´ve been reading here a while before i registred, i can honestly say i almost became one of Snyders victims, but i looked around a bit and it seems that i should stay away from him

I hope it´s ok to put up threads like this, asking about different things? I am looking around to see if there is a "big thread about newbies neverending questions" but it´s a very big forum and i get stuck all the time in different threads