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02-08-2015 09:50 PM
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Both nice quite early lids, the II is indeed the shell size and the two digit number is as you say the year of manufacture, the middle number "3" on the first lid is the month it was made, March!...
the second lid looks like it's 61!..
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Thanks for that, I was leaning towards the month for the single digit and the 2nd lid looked like 61 to me as well. I just wanted to see if anybody would agree
Anyone have any input concerning the chinstrap cheek pieces sticthed to the 2nd lid setup?
Some kind of transitional design perhaps or a type in its own right?
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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As far as i know all the early lids had the stitched on "cheek pieces" , they look like they are missing from the 1960 lid, later helmets had the cheek pieces slotted onto the straps rather than stitched!..
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That makes sense. I thought that the early lids didn't have them at all and that they were a later addition. The progression to the slotted type would suggest (along with so many early lids missing the pads) that the stiched ones had a tendancy to break loose in wear. I wonder now that I am not already aware of this but I guess it was a detail that was not so important when we were staring at these guys accross the IGB / Berlin Wall
Funny how a collectors eye changes the view
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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