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Type 90 Helmet?

Article about: Hello, so I bought a small Japanese collection and I have this Helmet that looks like a Type 90 but with almost no rim to it. It does not seem to have been cut down, mabe its just some sort

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    Hello, so I bought a small Japanese collection and I have this Helmet that looks like a Type 90 but with almost no rim to it.
    It does not seem to have been cut down, mabe its just some sort of reproduction?


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    While searching I found this site and thought I should try here, mabe some of you know what this is.

    Thank you in advance,

    Sno

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    That is how Nakata made repro army paratrooper helmets out of Type 90 helmets reused postwar by Thailand. They did this in the hundreds, so they would have made a jig to do a clean job. That is why they look so neat and not sloppy.

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    I see. I figured it was going to be something like this.
    Thank you.

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    The final product looks like this.
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