M21(!18) helmet with stirnpazner lugs and browplate just like WW1 M16 helmet.

[Sleepwalker]

Hello,

what amazes me is that these M21 helmets have the old "Knopf 91" - button 91 attachment for the chinstrap.

That was just a very unpopular and impractical emergency solution, which was abolished in 1918.


Regards

[Greg Pickersgill]

Hello,

what amazes me is that these M21 helmets have the old "Knopf 91" - button 91 attachment for the chinstrap.

That was just a very unpopular and impractical emergency solution, which was abolished in 1918.

Not everywhere, clearly. Apart from these Swedish examples (made in Germany) there is also the Vickers 1927 model, produced for Ireland post-1927 by the British company Vickers-Armstrong and used by the Irish military until the 1940s, essentially a copy of the German M16.

Thanks for this, by the way, I had no idea this feature was called the Knopf 91, and I have just found a Wikipedia Germany article on it. Amazing.

[Kaikun2001]

Swedish helmets were not very modern compared to the german counterpart, I think the German M16 offered more protection on the neck.