DESCRIPTION
This is a professional restoration I did a several years ago and has mainly been used in historical re-enactments which why the inside leather liner has not been chemically darkened or artificially aged. The original shell is an M42 ET66 rear lot number 2315 suggesting a factory production date of mid-1942 according to Brian Ice's lot data book. So this would have first left the factory as a single decal Heer helmet and then later given a base layer of dark yellow camo paint followed up by red brick browns and dark forest green overspray.
The entire helmet has been professionally aged and the decal is your textbook ET eagle which has also been tea toned to blend in with the rest of the outside camo paint. A very nice helmet to display or actually wear in re-enactments since it's a harder to find large size 66 and so will fit most men's heads of today. The liner is a size 59 and the chinstrap is a high end reproduction from the Czech Republic. This helmet is ready for combat!
$450
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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
