My Neighbor's WW1 German Helmet

[Airbornehunter]

Posting a thought provoker today. My neighbor recently passed and when they cleaned out the house, I wound up with this helmet. From the inside, it looks like a standard WW1 helmet, missing most of the liner. Inside paint looks original, there is also a name. Outside appears black or really, extremely dark blue. My initial impression was that this paint was post war applied by a kid/biker/ect, but another person who has seen it says that it was painted this color for WW2 civil use. It does seem to show a considerate amount of wear on the dome. What does everyone here think? The helmet was very, very cheap so please feel free to shred it. Thanks ABN

[Airbornehunter]

Here are some photos in another light. The blue shows better on the white background, but washes out some of the detail

[Adravor]

Inside is very nice, shame about the outside. I think this was post war done.

[AndyM35]

Nice M16 Bell L shell. Agree the paint inside the shell looks good.

Would you be able to take a closeup of each of the liner pin holes. Rear and front left, as I would like to have a look at the paint in that area.

Andy

[Airbornehunter]

Nice M16 Bell L shell. Agree the paint inside the shell looks good.

Would you be able to take a closeup of each of the liner pin holes. Rear and front left, as I would like to have a look at the paint in that area.

Andy

Thank you for the thoughts. I am away for the Thanksgiving Holiday in USA, will do so when I am able to in a few days. Thanks ABN

[GlennAgain]

Indeed a nice shell with lots of potential...I see it's only missing 2 Liner Attachment Rivets (left front & rear skirt rivets) Chinstrap and 2 Liner Pads...As stated above, the interior paint appears original...As far as the dark-blue over-paint, it's correct that helmets were painted in this color for Civil Luftschutz/Air Raid Protection Use, so I can't dismiss it out of hand as being a postwar paint-job...Thanks for showing...
-Glenn-