Hi guys,
I just acquired this near mint double-decal black Allgemeine-SS/SS-VT M16 helmet. It is a WW1 Austrian shell M16 with a reworked mid-1930's three pad liner and chinstrap....typical of the SS helmets from this period. Interestingly, the liner is stamped "1934" on one of the inner tongues.
This helmet appears in Kelly Hick's first volume of "SS Helmets - A Collector's Guide" on pages 39, 40 and 41. It also graces page 51 of Kelly's "SS Steel". My friend Shu will recognize this helmet as it used to reside with him in Japan up until a few years ago.
Hope you like...
party side...
inside...
Darryl you're off to an early start to another record setting year.
Congratulations,
John
Hope you like... Oh, yeah. We like.
What a magnificent helmet. Great start to a new year and may it continue at the current pace.
That is the sort of item that could cause one to consider abandoning the intractable lure of combat helmets. Great piece.
Good job.
Cody
Superb Darryl!
Your continued acquisitions are amazing to say the least.
Roy
I think I need to save a get maybe one of them. Errr. Anyways awesome helmet Darryl
Darryl, You never cease to amaze us with your "blackie" finds. Awesome my friend.
What a start..now where?
History writ large...takes the steam out of us fngs..man o man.
Paul
Super and very rare helmet Darryl..Congrats,
Glenn
Yet another amazing find...Well done my friend..
CONGRAT ...A NEW BLACK BEAUTY INTO YOUR,S COLLECTION WOW WOW GREAT ONE
Great start Darryl, no drought for 2006
Matt
fabulous....Utterly fabulous. 2006 is starting out with a real bang it seems!
Darryl
You are a man with a porpose. You mush have the greatest collection of Blackies to date..........................
BAR NONE
See Ya in Louisville.
Congratulations to an awesome helmet Darryl.
Very nice start to 2006.
Regards,
Anders.
I'm happy for you Darryl! your collecting
targets are so rare and hard to hit that I think that just the chance to spot one for sale must be pretty tough.really glad for you
Mario
Another excellent find my friend, well done.
Cheers
Don
Ahhhh..
You rascal you.
Ulf.
Superb helmet Darryl
Darryl,
What a great score! Some day I would love to see the entire line-up. Well Done!
Congratulations! What a beauty!
Andrew
Terrific helmet Darryl. Congratulations with your newest find. I would love to see a family picture of your collection!
Cees
Good things come to good people. Congratulations!
Congratulations, Darryl! What a surprise!
That was indeed an awesome helmet. Glad it found a good home!
Shu
MAGNIFICENT PIECE OF HISTORY. AND IN THE HANDS OF A GREAT COLLECTOR, CONGRATULATIONS.
All the best,
Federico
Thanks for all the kind words, guys...they are truly appreciated. I guess I should confess that I have been holding out on you all. There were actually two boxes waiting for me the other day. Hmmm...perhaps I should open the other box. What do you think...should I??
Darryl:
You are starting to sound like Monte Hall! Yes. I, for one would very much like to see what is behind curtain number 2 :-)
It would be easier to just send the other box to me since it isn't open yet
What do you think.
Open the darn thing
Glenn
Monty Hall...ah yes, another good Canadian boy from Winnipeg. Sorry for dragging this out, fellas. I'm just trying to make things somewhat interesting.
Ok, here's a cool piece of paper-provenance from the vet who "liberated" this next piece. Please note that I have airbrushed out the vet's name on the image.
Here is the "SS helmet (black)" the vet found...a Q66 M35. This helmet was acquired directly from the veteran in 1985 by an established US collector.
The other side. I won't be putting an image of the inside here on the forum. However, if anyone wants to see it this helmet is featured on pages 134 and 135 of Hicks' "SS Steel".
My god that is nice, you`re tempting me
Another killer helmet Darryl. I assume that you will be on a strict diet of hot dogs for the next little while
They could not have found a more deserving home.
Glenn
Fantastic, as usual Darryl !
Just keeps getting better!
Paul
Darryl, very nice pick-ups that M35 is killer.
Your on a roll these days.
Funny how everyone tends to like the M35s. Personally, I like the transitionals better..they tend to typify the early SS and the Gothic all-black look. However, that said, I do believe the black M35s are much more rare than the "trannies". The trannies though are harder to find in real nice condition.
Here's a rare pic of a black M35 in period wear by an SS-TV member.
You HAVE been holding out on your Forum friends. Bad boy.
Nice helm.
Cody
Darryl,
I'm in AWWWWWW. Two in a day....
Wow....Anton Glaser's helmet is nothing....THIS one really takes the prize for the most interesting helmet shown here in recent memory.
Wow! VERY IMPRESSIVE. Those are some jaw dropping helmets indeed.
darryl,
Man o Man! super nice. Thanks for giving us a peek.
Speechless
From the cover of Andrew Mollo's classic work, "A Pictorial History of the SS - 1923-1945" here is a sea of black SS M35 helmets at Nurnberg. Makes you wonder where they are now.
Awesome helmet ,great thing about these forums is you can share your lids with other appreaciative collectors .Rob.
most of them are repainted,
some killer lids you have,
never hold a black painted m35 ss
Marc
Hi Marc,
Yes, it was a rhetorical question. Actually, the vast majority of black M35s were repainted feldgrau and reissued to the Verfugungstruppe (later Waffen-SS). Only a small number would have been held back in reserve for possible parade purposes.
Of the older transitional helmets, most of these (according to Mollo) were melted down for their metal and used for the war effort. Although you see a few of the WW1 style helmets in WW2 combat use there were not that many around after about 1940.
I believe Terry Goodapple has an example of a black SS transitional overpainted with felgrau paint for issue to the field troops. I have not seen nor heard of another.
Cheers,
Here's another nice image of black M35 helmets being worn. This is from Mark Yerger's "Images of the Waffen-SS" on page 156 and shows a unit of SS-Totenkopf "Oberbayern" on parade.
Cheers,
Another killer lid Darryl. Wow....
Congratulations, Darryl!
Looks like your house now became a DEUITSCHE BLACK HELMET BANK. Keep it up.
I agree, the wartime necessity of recyling the black helmets into the field gray ones account for the ultra rarity of the black M35s. Long time ago I owned a Heer decaled rough-textured M35 with a rottenfuhrer name in the liner. It had black paint visible through its scuffs. I wonder where it is now. Should have kept it.
Shu
Actually, I only keep a couple here at the house...for fondling
. The others are stored at another location for safe-keeping. However, I have lots of digital pics here on the computer that I can use for reference and posting and such.
Shu, your old Heer helmet sounds like it was a very cool example...even better than the Heer/SS one I still own.
Cheers,
From my collection of early SS portraits.... this original portrait of an SS VT officer wearing one of the combat M35s painted black.
Is it me, or does he look like that genius from Star Trek?
Paul
Ahem...Ken....I'm new to this forum, but shouldn't he be wearing an ear-cut-out?
Darryl,congrats again.What a fantastic helmet!!
I also like the transitionals best,but this one
is
.
Really hope to have one in my collection someday.
I have only seen and hold one example in my life
,and it was way to expensive for me then.
And Welcome to the forum Frank,i know we have "meet" before here in cyberspace.
Nice to see you here too.
Regards,
Anders.
Yes indeed...it's nice to see Frank finally posting here. I have known him for a long time and he is one of the good guys in this hobby...a purist who loves helmets and collecting. None finer.
Hopefully we will be able to talk Frank into posting pictures of some German helmets from his great collection.
Wecome to the forum, Frank.
Cheers,
Darryl as usual you got some stunning stuff....
My congrats!!!
Tom
Darryl, congratulations! Heart thumping helmets, would love to lay my hands on one of those M35's. Tim.
If anybody deserved to get these black SS helmets then they for sure ended up the right place, just beautiful!
Most likely at the bottom of the ocean in the bow of some sunken freighter smelled down in 1946. LOL
Darryl you are amazing. Congratulations on your new acquisition(s). Unbelievable. Unbelievably unbelievable....[
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Originally posted by darryl:
From the cover of Andrew Mollo's classic work, "A Pictorial History of the SS - 1923-1945" here is a sea of black SS M35 helmets at Nurnberg. Makes you wonder where they are now.
