WW1 Adrian helmet, orginal?
Article about: Hello everyone, Today I came across this Adrian helmet and was thinking about finally adding one to my collection. However I do not know allot about Adrian helmet and thus I would like to kn
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The mustard brown paint is typical of colonial troops (matching their khaki brown uniforms), whereas metropolitan units would retain the standard horizon blue (Harry, I have never heard of metropolitan French artilleurs painting their helmets brown, and am interested to know where you heard this ).
I am unsure of the name carved into the paint, though it seems ‘colonial’ in character.
With the provisos mentioned by Harry, regarding chinstrap repair/replacement (should be a riveted, one-piece item - thin, fragile and often missing 100 years later), and the originality of the emblem, it is indeed a nice French Colonial Artillerie Adrian.
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The mustard brown paint is typical of colonial troops (matching their khaki brown uniforms), whereas metropolitan units would retain the standard horizon blue (Harry, I have never heard of metropolitan French artilleurs painting their helmets brown, and am interested to know where you heard this
).
I am unsure of the name carved into the paint, though it seems ‘colonial’ in character.
With the provisos mentioned by Harry, regarding chinstrap repair/replacement (should be a riveted, one-piece item - thin, fragile and often missing 100 years later), and the originality of the emblem, it is indeed a nice French Colonial Artillerie Adrian.
I never mentioned the chinstrap repair... and as for the colour, I cannot remember where I got this information from. My Officer's Adrian is named to Commandant Caillard and he was serving with 48th Artillery regiment, and this was not a Colonial regiment!
Cheers,
Steve
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I would echo the same points, the badge looks original but not to the helmet, as it is a re-paint I would expect the badge to be painted over. The strap looks like it's been extended, he may have been a big guy.
The brown paint, I also not sure is strictly colonial, the factory painted mustard definitely was for colonial units, the overpaints I think it's anyone's guess.
Steve.
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Thank you all very much for your responses, I decided to pass up on it, as nice as the helmet was I want one with a badge that is original to the helmet.
Have a nice day everyone
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