Hi friends, I wonder if it might be a fun exercise to look back at our early days as budding collectors. I started to be interested in military artifacts at around age 15 in 1975. The circa 1976 photo shows one of my earliest acquisitions - an M16 Stahlhelm and gas mask both attributed to the same soldier Grenadier Brunnlieb. I could not resist donning it back then. Of course, I would not think of doing that now! I still have both items although the chin strap disintegrated shortly after the purchase. They were sold to me by a retired postman who would drive up in his car, open the trunk and ask "what do you want?" NH
$75 for the helmet and $50 for the gas mask back then.
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