DESCRIPTIONÂ
This helmet is as right as rain in that no one has ever touched it since it was brought back from mainland Europe nearly 80 years ago. It came with another Luftwaffe M40 helmet out of a collector's estate from Butte, Montana. His wife told me that she didn't believe he was a collector but had inherited it from one from uncles back when he was child.
This is an M40 Quist size 64 untouched mid war everyman's fighting helmet serving with the Luftwaffe. The single decal is your textbook factory applied Quist style adler with the correct talons and beak. The rear lot number is DN182 which according to Brian Ice's data book places the original production date to the summer of 1941.
The original liner and all 3 split pins have never been removed or altered in any way and all 8 leather tongues are still firmly intact with the original soldier's name inscribed/identified as Gefr. (Gefreiter) Druben cursively written inside. The original chinstrap was broken off in places but remains intact which isn't ideal but still nice that it still exists at all and can always be replaced at a later date if one so chooses.
$850 HOLD - Chansen S.
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HELMETS OF WAR INC.
PO Box 555
Champlain, NY 12919-0555
Shipping to Anywhere USA/Canada: $22 with full tracking numbers.
Shipping to UK/Mainland Europe: $90
Shipping to Australia/New Zealand: $100 with full tracking numbers.
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
