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German helmet split rivet and washer12/28/2023 International shipping will be via USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL (USPS Global Express is available upon request). Please contact me about any concerns you may have on this before bidding. ***NOTICE: International bidders are very welcome! ~If your bid is blocked by restrictions, please contact me for possible Remedy~ International buyers must pay through ~~PAYPAL~~ as soon as my invoice is received. The payment methods I accept are: Paypal, money orders or cashier's checks. (On 5/14/07 all USPS Postal Rates were increased, effecting all domestic & international rates). Delivery confirmation is included in the DOMESTIC flat shipping rate of $6.00. Please ask all questions at least 1 day before the auction's closing, as I may be trout fishing that day - all day. The original brass washers are missing however, so these have steel washers.I'm offering these to the highest bidder, along with a money-back gaurantee of authenticity.So check my Feedback, and if you want to own this item, bid with confidence. T is no stamping on the tabs of these rivets that I can make out. But brass was scrapped in favor of zinc/steel/manganese alloy in rivet construction with the then newly designed M40 helmets. Perhaps that is the reason for the eventual use of zinc for this plating. In consequence, original helmet paint almost never add to this plating. As pictured, they display the nickel plating often used. This proves nothing.Is a set of original WWII German combat helmet liner split rivets w/washers. Please never try this as you can damage a nice original decal as easily as you can damage a fake. This practice is often suggested by inexperienced collectors and I know I heard this way back in the nineties even. Scratch a decal with you fingernail to see if it is real. Urban Legend Alert : Scratching decals with your fingernail So never say a beat up or ground dug helmet has more history than one in good condition because it’s simply untrue. In Europe we see more helmets being left behind in farms or kept by families when the Germans retreated in 1944 and dumped what they could not carry. Probably a good many of those were picked up by GI’s from surrender piles and sent home. Many helmets German soldiers wore survived the war in worn to excellent condition. A helmet dug out of the ground unless you know exactly where (which in most cases you don’t) is no more a real war dog or no less than a good helmet that was immediately put into a veteran’s duffel bag on the battlefield. In cold and damp basements, in hot dry attics or sheds. Most worn helmets we see today have had rough after war lives. The more something looks beat up the more it must have been in true gritty combat. I read this statement often when new collectors are looking for their first helmet often due to inexperience they trust in wear. EF M42 Polizei (1943 dated components) with 1 vent hole punched lower than the otherĨ) Helmets showing massive wear like oxidation, missing paint, and torn leather have more history than those in much better condition. Helmets are observed leaving the factory flawed, later war helmets will be more prone to that. Rivets were replaced and often in the field, although not commonly seen it’s possible one (or all) of the rivets are missing a washer.ħ) Production flaws. Note : One loose rivet can cause the other ones to seem as if they are loose.Ħ) One of the rivets is missing a washer. Three would be a cause for further inspection. Used combat helmets have loose rivets, usually one, sometimes two. Shrinking of the leather on aluminium liners can cause them to have a more squared look.ĥ) Your helmet has loose rivets. Quist M40 luftwaffe – smooth painted rivet and textured paint on the shell.Ĥ) The leather of the liner has a strange shape. I observed this mostly on M35 Kriegsmarine and M35/M40 Luftwaffe helmets, old stock and different subcontractors can be the cause of this. While official decal placement directions exist it is clear from the many helmets that survived the war that scant attention was paid to them.ģ) Your helmet rivets paint seem different than the paint on the shell. Many original examples have been observed with badly placed decals.Ģ) The decal is not placed 3 mm under the vent hole. None of the points I list below are valid points to dismiss a helmet out of hand.ġ) Your helmet has crooked decals. I will list here some untruths that I have spotted online that often re-appear. Often inexperience is the cause for making untrue statements.
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