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I am not particularly well-informed about the M56 (I know and have examples of all the usual variants plus the arguable late-issue 'flat top') but my immediate impression was that Jack's was a not...

That's what I thought too - same number of lobes, same general appearance. I did try to count the number of holes in the brow but gave up when my left eye kept going out of focus.

James - and Russ and anyone else reading! - I am getting rather concerned about this idea of there being only one size of the later production M56 (and I am believing that what we are discussing here...

This is interesting; I just found out on another forum (Historical War Militaria) that while the early version of the M56 was made in three sizes (as indicated by the Roman numerals at the top of the...

Thanks for that, especially has it includes a link to a very interesting Spanish forum (with some good stuff on the M56) which I hadn't seen before.

And I note especially Post 19 in the thread you...

Thank you for reminding me of this, Tht's an excellent posting and the first one that made it clear to me that there was a real difference in the actual size of the chinstraps. Any M56 collector...

Eerk! Well, you're right, that's unobservant of me. But then I've got to say that's the first and only I have seen. This can't be common. If it is genuinely a production quirk that's somethng else to...

Well, sewn-on cheek-pieces? I have *never* seen this, but of course that doesn't mean it isn;t real. I do find it hard to believe that would be a factory-finish though. An end-user modification,...

Well, nice to see you back, your postings were always interesting. And so is this one. Those real first-series M56 are hard to find anywhere. To be sure it is a real early one the lack of...

hang about hang about, I am sure the real early examples did NOT have that triangular patch - in fact the chinstrap rig is distinctly different. See Fabe's pic here...