Rare Italian Paratrooper Helmet...eBay
Article about: This is a classic example of what still happens here in the US, and I am sure abroad sometimes also. Probably a war trophy, that was brought home by a WW2 US Vet, and now somehow the helmet
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Re: Rare Italian Paratrooper Helmet...eBay
winning bid US $15,100.00
looks like a few shill bidders bid the price up at the end
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Re: Rare Italian Paratrooper Helmet...eBay
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winning bid US $15,100.00
looks like a few shill bidders bid the price up at the end
whatever happened..... 5***u "1506" just had to have it. The privates and 0 feedback bidders are odd, but maybe not shill bidders. It's hard to tell now the way it is set up.
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Re: Rare Italian Paratrooper Helmet...eBay
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the price tripled at the end went from around $5,000 to $15,100
I think the buyer is going to have remorse about this helmet
the 0 feedback bidders & private bidder look very suspicious to me
Wasn't watching, was eating dinner instead. Thats a pretty big jump though. Maybe a museum bought it.
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Re: Rare Italian Paratrooper Helmet...eBay
That is nuts...............
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Re: Rare Italian Paratrooper Helmet...eBay
The price is really beyond my imagination, but according to some italian collectors on a local forum the helmet was Ok and very rare too. Indeed well paid.
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crazy price blimy ok...so whats the differences between the wartime version of this pattern which was used during the war and post war years i believe.
without discussing the obvious stencilled badges !!! ;-)
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Re: Rare Italian Paratrooper Helmet...eBay
Local aviation museum has one of those on a post-war uniformed mannequin, don't know if it's a wartime or post war one. Apparently the webbing for Italian paratroopers is so complex they had to phone one in to set it up for them on the mannequin.
Martin
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