What are these helmets worth?

**Luis22** · 10-30-2010, 12:37 AM

Your helmets are worth $50 a piece if you have any big size 68 for example it could go up to $65.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-30-2010 12:37 AM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**skip** · 10-30-2010, 07:51 PM

I agree with Luis. Anyway $50 is about what I would pay for a bare shell. I base this on the fact that I'd want to keep total cost below $150, and good repro liners are not cheap. But liners, split pins, authentic paint colors etc. are available so you could make a nice though not original helmet.
I restored a Finnish-sourced M40/55 to Wermacht/Heer color and markings and gave it to the small local military museum. They were glad to get it because they'd been displaying a Spanish Modelo-Z as an example of the German WWII helmet.
I made it clear that the thing was post-war and though German-made came from Finland. But it is a pretty accurate representation of what an early-war M40 looks like, and I enjoyed working on it.