High Jack, $300 is a lot to lose like this but together with the location and the unusual nature of the iten itself should add up to a huge red flag, well more of a banner actually! It's good to know...
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High Jack, $300 is a lot to lose like this but together with the location and the unusual nature of the iten itself should add up to a huge red flag, well more of a banner actually! It's good to know...
I agree it is an interesting item and as far as "fakes" go it looks the part and is very likely to convince the uniformed.
As far as I can see neither Baer book references an M56 with either this...
Hmm, not the best picture but I am going to suggest that the marking in the first picture read;
II
06
70
Which translates as; Size 2, June, 1970. Of cousre this would be totally wrong for...
Great "happy snaps" of parade dress with what looks like the Plasthelm.
The breast badge worn by two of them is I think the Leistungsabzeichen but is distorted by the period quality photography.
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Just saw this:shok_yikes:
Storing anything made of steel in a plastic bag let alone foam and leather is a terrible idea! Don't do itnotcool
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Mark
Sometimes referred to as "transitional" this is the M56 shell with "blind" rivets in the pre-drilled holes in the shell and six new fixing nipples spot welded to the inside on which the plastic...
The short answer is that you don't. As stated further up the thread these are early synthetic material and the hardening is a natural degredation that is a symptom of age. Storage in neutral...
As I say I couldn't see the rivets. If there are three on the outside and it has the later plastic cradle liner that makes it M56/66 sometimes called "transitional and it is an early shell with the...
Yes it does look like it has been around the block! No rivet heads (that I can see) on the outside and the plastic cradle liner so it is the M56/76 (not an earlier shell converted to take the later...
Exactly right, the plastic cradle liner was introduced in 1966 which resulted in the M56/66 ie early shell with blanked off rivet holes which appear like rivets from the outside and new fixing...
Yes, but "too far" is surely a subjective conceptcool militaria
The M56/76 will do if it is just for set dressing but not with the late pattern net I think and be prepared for some spotter (one of...
Yes, the sizes are I,II,III and the stamping is usually from top to bottom; Size, month, year but the configuration did change and sometimes the year is missing. The stamps are sometimes crystal...
Thanks for the response,
Looks to me to be II for size 2 and 11 for November but I can't see a year number but as it is the final M56/76 it would be 1976 or later. Can't say for sure why there is...
I agree, this is like saying "I want you to look at something to help me but you need to go and fetch it first" and using a complaint about the picture upload feature as an excuse doesn't fly either....
I hate it when that happens!
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Mark
Hi James,
No definitely not. The seam of the cover runs front to back with the state emblem front and centre. I'm on my phone so can't put up a pic but there are loads out there. I think you...
I believe these to be an interim variation modifying existing shells to accept the new liner quickly followed by the later spot welded stud types which would likely provide greater ballistic...
Nice examples all round guys cool militaria
I really like these helmets and feel they are a much neglected part in the evolution of the German combat helmet. Especially with the link to WWII made...