German model 1940 Vulcanised fibre helmet. Nice example m40 Vulcanised fibre helmet, with an Italian war booty helmet liner!!! Germany reused and re-issued a lot of the materials coming out of the countries they invaded, and thus apparently a whole lot of Italian m33 liners ended up beiing issued into more civic helmets! Shell has [Continue]
German model 1940 Vulcanised fibre helmet. Nice example m40 Vulcanised fibre helmet, with an Italian war booty helmet liner!!! Germany reused and re-issued a lot of the materials coming out of the countries they invaded, and thus apparently a whole lot of Italian m33 liners ended up beiing issued into more civic helmets! Shell has [Continue]
German model 1940 Vulcanised fibre helmet. Nice example m40 Vulcanised fibre helmet, with an Italian war booty helmet liner!!! Germany reused and re-issued a lot of the materials coming out of the countries they invaded, and thus apparently a whole lot of Italian m33 liners ended up beiing issued into more civic helmets! Shell has [Continue]
German model 1940 Vulcanised fibre helmet. Nice example m40 Vulcanised fibre helmet, with an Italian war booty helmet liner!!! Germany reused and re-issued a lot of the materials coming out of the countries they invaded, and thus apparently a whole lot of Italian m33 liners ended up beiing issued into more civic helmets! Shell has [Continue]
German model 1940 Vulcanised fibre helmet. Nice example m40 Vulcanised fibre helmet, with an Italian war booty helmet liner!!! Germany reused and re-issued a lot of the materials coming out of the countries they invaded, and thus apparently a whole lot of Italian m33 liners ended up beiing issued into more civic helmets! Shell has [Continue]
Most were colored black but this example is a true feldgrau color throughout the material and the outer shell painted with a flat feldgrau lacquer. This color must have been meant for Army use. Vulkan Fibre produced these helmets from 1935-36 and entered their helmet in the new helmet trials where the M35 steel helmet [Continue]
Books, Maps and Photographs. China, Ceramics and Glass. Tel: +44 (0) 1752 221443, or visit us at: Parade Antiques, 27 New Street, Barbican, Plymouth, PL1 2NB. WWII German Italian Rare Pressed Fibre Tropical Helmet. A rare and unusual officer’s tropical pith helmet. It is a rare pressed fibre helmet that was made in Germany in [Continue]