Austrian M75

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Austrian (Bundesheer ) M-58

[Estonian]

My collection latest addition. "10 lober" +helmet band.

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My fellow collectors ,

My newest addition to the Stahlhelm shelf is this nice
1959 U.Sch. shell with replaced chinstraps.

In march 1964 the austrian defense ministery wrote out a contract
for some steel helmet spares ....

5.000 steelhelmet chinstraps with ball closure
8.500 leather headbands for the liner
7.500 nape straps short with 4 clips

This could be one helmet that got one of these replacement chinstraps .

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Hi, mates,
I received this helmet a few days ago, in which, quite obviously, the chin strap had also been replaced, but here it was only riveted to the bails of the shell with a single rivet.

Also interesting to me is the gray color of the helmet, which can still be seen clearly in the dome of the shell.
On the outside of the shell you can still see a gray base coat underneath the typical brown-green color of the helmet.

At first I thought of a "Gray" from the ÖBH's "Donauflottille", but a collector friend didn't confirm this to me.
He said there were actually "gray" helmets in the ÖBH.
I now have the question:
Was the helmet originally "gray" and was later oversprayed in "earth brown" / "earth green", or vice versa? ...

I couldn't find any signs about the manufacturer on the shell, the liner indicates the manufacturer Ulbricht's Witwe, Schwanenstadt.

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The liner:

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Also interesting to me is the gray color of the helmet, which can still be seen clearly in the dome of the shell.
On the outside of the shell you can still see a gray base coat underneath the typical brown-green color of the helmet.
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See also another copy in #38 on page 4 in this thread !

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Also interesting to me is the gray color of the helmet, which can still be seen clearly in the dome of the shell.
On the outside of the shell you can still see a gray base coat underneath the typical brown-green color of the helmet.

At first I thought of a "Gray" from the ÖBH's "Donauflottille", but a collector friend didn't confirm this to me.
He said there were actually "gray" helmets in the ÖBH.
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As mentioned, I was initially of the opinion that my helmet with gray paint inside the dome of the shell was a helmet of a crew member of one of the boats of the "Donauflotille" of the ÖBH, possibly a crew member of the Patrouillenboot "Niederösterreich", or, "Oberst Brecht".

These two PT boates were decommissioned in August 2006 and I assume(d) that the helmets of the crew members, (which could actually have been sprayed gray), were re-sprayed on the outside in the color for the infantry for further use, on the inside but remained gray.

But our colleague Bernhard, who has already spoken here in the thread and whom I know personally and also highly respect, told me that he cannot confirm this.

[John Robbins]

First post for me - Nice to see all of your helmets, he's my example 76 shell and a 74 liner! Named to an officer.

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Here he is on the bottom left with some Australian and American friends.