DESCRIPTION
Well for those of us fortunately enough to have grown up in the 1970's or 80's when in order to have fun you had to actually go outside and find creative things to do with your time here's a real blast from the past for you. This is one of those hard to find survivor helmets that originally came out of an early 1970's comic book whereby you simply mailed in your $19.95 and received a double decal German helmet to run around the neighbourhood with and fight off the other kids playing as GI Joe. These helmets were imported in the thousands back in the late 60's and 70's from Norwegian stockpiles and then simply given a fresh set of German Heer decals. The Norwegian captured stock piles of German helmets after the war and then reused them in their own post war army. During the refurbishment process the helmets were painted over in a mint green with Norwegian decals applied. The liner systems were all removed and both the liner and chinstrap was kept together and dyed in a type of red sanitizing agent and given a black shoe string to bing the leather fingers together. This is one of those helmets which was later imported to the US and sold via the back of comic book advertisements to kids who wanted to dress up like Germans.
Here is one such survivor completely untouched since it arrived in the mail back in the early 1970's. The chinstrap is original, full length and never cut down with manufacturing stampings on the reverse side. Would need to angle in bright sunlight to try and make out the factory stampings but rest assured they are present just a little obscured.
$395
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Tel/Text: 1-438-502-5052
Email Us: helmetsofwar@gmail.com
HELMETS OF WAR INC.
PO Box 555
Champlain, NY 12919-0555
Shipping to Anywhere USA/Canada: $22 with full tracking numbers.
Shipping to Europe/UK: $65 with full tracking numbers.
Shipping to Australia/New Zealand: $75 with full tracking numbers.
(Please contact us with any special shipping instructions as I am here to serve and facilitate the shipment.)
GERMAN HELMET FACTORY PRODUCTION CODES
(Every original German helmet produced from 1935 to 45 had two factory stampings punched into the side and rear or both in the rear. The alpha numeric number refers to the factory location and the inside metric circumference in centimeters. The rear lot number refers to the production run and was used as a quality control measure. The font styles used at each factory were slightly different but highly consistent throughout the war and so fakes or reproductions will either not have these numbers at all or they will use the wrong font style or letter spacing and so are easily identified as post war made.)
(FS or EF)-Emaillierwerke AG, Fulda, Germany
(ET or ckl)-Eisenhuttenwerke, Thale, Germany
(Q)-Quist, Esslingen, Germany
(NS)-Vereinigte Deutsche Nikelwerke, Schwerte, Germany
(SE or hkp)-Sachsische Emaillier u. Stanzwerke, Lauter, Germany
