Huh? What's this !?!?!?!?

Wait !!!! Come back !!!

Maybe the FedEx guy left a present on the front porch. I'd better scamper downstairs and see...

Joy !!!

Tax papers?

Cody,

You are taking these type of thread to the next level!!!

Bryan

Bryan,

You're right...this type of thread is the new way to build up the suspense level. Just wait until my next FedEx package arrives. I'm going to show the airplane landing in Toronto!

PS - you guys are going to be in awe with Cody's new baby...

Cheers,

Open the darn thing



Glenn

I think it's a german helmet.

I am sure it has nothing to do with 3rd Reich Militaria.

Maybe a box of Fruit from Florida

I didn't send Cody any fruit....

Open the darn thing.....

Erik

I think its Shu Kamisada on his stateside tour.

Robert

The sign of an advanced collector: Able to maintain composure long enough to photograph the box before opening it.

Shu Kamisada is eating an ice cream cone waiting to see what will happen next. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

Hey, Robert! It was nice seeing you again at the show!

Shu

Well, it must be time to see what's inside the box...

Waffen SS M-35dd, ET64, 1939-dated reinforced aluminum linerband, leather is named to 'Braun', 1938-dated chinstrap, domestamp is far too faint to read, but, if you click your heels together and squint 'just right' a date can almost be seen. The runic decal is the very same one as shown in Baer, page 189.

I have known of this gorgeous helmet for some time and now happily own it.

Hope you enjoy the eye candy.

Cody

NS side

Liner

Eye popping

WOW Cody, that is one sh*t hot helmet. Tim.

What a super piece!!!

Knee buckling! Do they come any better? Congratulations!

Robert

PS...Dittos Shu, nice to see you at SOS.

WOOOOOWWOOOOOOW.BEAUTY. MY LOVE TO YOU

A killer

Wow.....what a hat. I am dying of "helmet envy".

Also, I think that I heard the faint sound of Shu's ice cream cone hitting the floor!

No..that was the sound of my jaw hitting the kitchen table

Super, just super

Oh man. Now I know how far I need to go.
Killer, rightous helmet.
In envy,
Paul

Absolutely stunning helmet Cody. One of the best I have ever seen.

Cody....how could you do this to us?

Erik

WOW, CODY!!!!!!

Hey...I just got here...into the Helmet thing I mean...that is my cousin Hans Braun's steel pot...would you mind sending it back to me? thanx in advance...Roland.

Cody,
That is a beauty.............I think I have it's twin brother

Larry

That's one killer helmet Congrats,


Glenn

Stunning........

Cheers
Don

Cody,

So glad you got it and it is spectacular! Well Done!

Outstanding helmet .Roland what is that in your avatar? Rob.

Sweeeeeeeet.

Dean

In this case the tease was worth it. Magnificent acquisition.
-Mike

Who needs SOS Louisville when you've got the good stuff dropped off on your doorstep from FEDEX! Thats coldblooded.

Robert

Rob...I dont understand it either...on May 15th of 1967 some guy in the Rep. of Viet Nam did not like me and made a mess of my "chicken plate"...daah...it was a perfectly olive chicken plate until he done that...so now I use it as my atavar...since it did save my life that day...it hangs in my library...since all the doorgunner, crewchiefs, pilots and co-pilots of the 176th assault Helicopter Company signed it for me...your SteinMeister

Excellent!! Unfortunately all this does is make my meger collection even megerer.

is megerer a word??

See? I told you guys that you would be awe-struck. Magnificent helmet, Cody. And in that pristine condition it is a virtually one-of-a-kind example.

Cheers,

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the kind words. I feel very fortunate to have acquired this magnificent example of Waffen SS kit. After purchase negotiations began, Kelly pointed out the Baer association. That bit of frosting certainly made the acquisition sweeter.

Thanks again,
Cody

WOW, What an incredible helmet.
Its beautiful
Tonym

Cody,Cody.....congrats to a super killer M35 DD.
What a helmet and what a condition

Best Regards,

Anders L.

Cody. A dream come true lid, by any measure. Awsome, awsome, awsome... of course.

Seeing pictures of helmets like that makes Woodrow come up a hard!!

He did it again! What a wonderful helmet! Super cool! Congratulations!

Shu

Just got off the phone with a collector-friend 'up here' in Oregon. As it turns out, this helmet was acquired by an associate of my friend's from a vet in Beaverton, OR on a bright, warm Sunday in 1984. Earlier, I had sent images of the helm to this friend, whereby, he immediately recognized the helmet from the tiny kachunka in the upper-left corner of the runic shield. "That's it!"

J. Goodman, who acquired the helmet from the vet, was told of if by another who just didn't have time to go see the thing. Too bad. Goodman kept it long enough to receive credit in the Baer book then sold it to the person from who I received it. Small world we helmet collectors inhabit.

Curiously, the helmet is back home in Oregon.

Cody

Unbelivable...what a beauty.

Hello Cody,....I am so envious, It's just superb, I didn't think they came as good as that.....I bet it didn't come from Manions!!!....I suppose the obvious next question must be, have any black M35 DDs in a similar condition survived? Many thanks.