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01-16-2021 08:44 PM
# ADS
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The SSh-39 helmet seems like a good LMZ production to me.
Many SSh-39 helmets were captured by the Germans at the start of Operation Barbarossa. They have been reused by the German Luftschutz. These reused helmets were painted black on the outside.
There is a lot of messing around with these reused SSh-39 Luftschutz helmets. Sometimes the black top layer of such a helmet is removed with acetone or something similar, but sometimes the outside is repainted green and decorated with an outline Soviet star.
I have seen some examples of overpainted SSh-39 Luftschutz helmets at militaria fairs.
If you look closely at such a repainted helmet, you can see a difference in colour between the inside and the outside of the helmet.
It looks like that the paint layer of your helmet is more beautiful on the outside than on the inside. Normally this is the other way around. It gives me the impression that your helmet has also been repainted on the outside.
You suspect that the texts in the helmet are in the Dutch language. Could you post a larger photo of the black stamped text? The name "Öesen" seems more like a German name than a Dutch name.
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The letter ü is written in the German handwriting Sütterlin; Sutterlin - Wikipedia .
The black stamp remains a bit unclear, but I think it says the German word Traditionsmuster. I find it a difficult word to translate. The German word Muster means sample in English. What is below might explain a little more, but I cannot read it.
The texts in the helmet actually indicate what I suspected. The helmet has been reused by the German Luftschutz.
It always makes me a bit sad when WWII objects are edited in this way and collectors are led astray.
I also have a SSh-39 Luftschutz helmet myself. The helmet has been repainted in dark gray. I do not think about removing this dark gray layer. It is simply the history of the helmet and I leave it that way.
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It can even be a Russian name. I am not familiar with all variations of names since these do not resemble western names but the seperate letter on the last pic is similar to the Cyrillic letter Й (J) - (sometimes written with two dots) and the full name resembles a bit like Йчег. Can our Russian speaking members enlighten us here please if this is a possibility?
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Perhaps. I am certainly not a linguist, but there are Slavic languages and dialects that have their own Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic alphabets - Wikipedia
The black stamp with Latin characters makes me suspect that the helmet has been used by the German Luftschutz.
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