1956 Dutch Civil Defence
Article about: Thought you may like to see my recent purchase. A surprise find in Melbourne. Thanks to previous threads on these I can identify this as a 1956 helmet by Verenigde Blikfabrieken. Enjoyed a l
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Nice original example. Makes you wonder how it ended up as surplus on the other side of the world...
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I agree. I blame eBay.....it's enabled us all to obtain things we'd've never even seen from the other side of the world. I think going forward there'll be a lot more out-of-place items which as far as I'm concerned is just great!!
These helmets are often sold as Brit WW2 Flak gunner helmets...but there's a whole load of Dutch Civils to collect with coloured rings etc......
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I wondered how it got here too. I guess there was a lot of stuff miss-identified before personal computers made the research relatively easy. No expensive ($60AUS) so I suppose someone could have lost out somewhere.
Oz.
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