DESCRIPTION
This helmet is a wonderful example of what your everyday fighting man would have worn defending the beaches of Normandy or during the occupation of France or Poland. A mid-war M40 Q64 helmet with a single Heer textbook Bigfoot Quist decal along with it's original liner and drawstring. The decal is silver metallic and a factory textbook Quist Bigfoot version whereby the eagle's talons are very large and imposing with a bold flattened eagle's head. The decal is a bit worn down which is typical in period black and white photos or where the German did a lot of fighting.
Drawstring appears to have been added in ad hoc by the returning US vet as it appears to be part of US army webbing. The Q64 rear lot number is 4842 placing the year of factory production to right around early summer of 1941 according to Brian Ice's lot data book. Helmet was purchased from a non-collector and so has never seen the light of day until now.
The original German solider using a fountain pen wrote his name rank and possibly his unit on the rear of the liner but needs to be more closely looked at in order to fully make it out. Just uber cool that this helmet is actually named by the German who wore it during the war.
A great helmet for a newer collector looking for a medium grade German WW2 single decal Heer helmet.
$650
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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
