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01-08-2020 11:51 PM
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Hello shaped steel
This E is not a Factory error, it is its lotnumber
It its possible that this shell was producted in 1940 but it was never used like the B1-8 series too made by NS in size 64
It can be that the M40 of you is heavier than your M42 because the Comb and the heavy colour is a weight too
All in all a good helmet and I have one made out of a Hungarian M38
BR
Bavarian
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It's a post war made NS shell. Stamps look quite different than the wartime ones.
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also the separation between the individual stamps.
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Schwerpunkt
It's a post war made NS shell. Stamps look quite different than the wartime ones.
Thank you for your reply.
What would be the best way of identifying these post war lids? I always thought that West-German helmets were stamped with that LS logo.
I've never heard of West-German helmets being stamped this way, I'd like to know more but I can't find much about it online.
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ShapedSteel
Thank you for your reply.
What would be the best way of identifying these post war lids? I always thought that West-German helmets were stamped with that LS logo.
I've never heard of West-German helmets being stamped this way, I'd like to know more but I can't find much about it online.
Knowing the wartime stamps , font style and size of the markings will help you identify fake and post war stamps.
I have no interest in post war shells so I can't elaborate on them.
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It is post war indeed, I got fooled by one, too, NS64 B4.
I can definitely prove it is post war, because I recently bought a big lot of equipment from a fire department and one typical steel fire department helmet (with the 4 ventilation holes) was marked VDNS (Vereinigte Deutsche Nickelwerke AG, Schwerte) and B9 or something similar.
Luis
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PotatoDigger
It is post war indeed, I got fooled by one, too, NS64 B4.
I can definitely prove it is post war, because I recently bought a big lot of equipment from a fire department and one typical steel fire department helmet (with the 4 ventilation holes) was marked VDNS (Vereinigte Deutsche Nickelwerke AG, Schwerte) and B9 or something similar.
Luis
Yeah these helmets are a real pain because of how similar they look to the WW2 ones. I had never heard of these helmets before so I had no idea that they were something to look out for.
I'm assuming that these helmets are BGS/Polizei helmets that were modified for civil use? Am I correct?
But anyways, I hope that from my mistake some other new collector will safe money.
Lucas
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1 thing about the liner and treating it , it won't be gone in 3 years without treatment. I have much worse liners.
The fact just is that these products are not made for conservation of leather but to keep leather useable (supple) and works best with leather that's not almost 100 years old :-)
None of my leathers which I own for +15 years have noticeable deterioration. Also all the leathers treated very long ago (60's / 70's) have not improved at all as compared to none treated leather.
So my golden advice , keep chemical products away from your helmets.
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