#68397
05/13/2007 04:52 PM
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It's an ET64 M40 with a crack on top. There appear to be two layers of paint - tan and green. The liner, the rivets, and the chinstrap are intact. This makes me wonder what caused the crack, but two of my friends pointed out that this might have been caused by a fall from a high place when the helmet was not worn. But the cracking on the shell is not entirely uncommon ... especially on the ET shell. Anyway, any real camo SS is rare and this nice verdant color must have blended into the summer green ... maybe in Normandy?
Shu
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05/13/2007 04:53 PM
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05/13/2007 04:55 PM
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05/13/2007 04:56 PM
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05/13/2007 04:57 PM
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05/13/2007 04:59 PM
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05/13/2007 05:00 PM
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05/13/2007 05:01 PM
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05/13/2007 05:02 PM
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05/13/2007 05:03 PM
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#68407
05/13/2007 05:04 PM
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paint ... hope you'll enjoy it!  Shu
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#68408
05/13/2007 05:12 PM
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Hi Shu, Kool helmet even to the verdant collector.  I have a Q M-35 demonstrating cracking as well and have wondered if the cracking is a result of inherent stresses within the shell imparted during the stamping process.  Cody
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#68409
05/13/2007 05:40 PM
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Thank you Cody for your insight. You might be right as there's no visible damage from outside. Would appreciate more info. Shu
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#68410
05/13/2007 07:06 PM
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Nice helmet. the crack will probably never be figured out, but none the less very interesting!
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#68411
05/13/2007 08:47 PM
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Beautiful SS helmet with tremendous combat character, way to go Shu!
Robert
We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men...leaning together, headpiece filled with straw. Alas!--T.S. Eliot 1925
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#68412
05/13/2007 11:09 PM
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Very Nice helmet Shu~!
You just don't see many Camo SS around at all.
I would think maybe an artillery or grenade concussion could crack a helmet like that, but I am not a metallurgist or an ordinance guy. It just seems to me like that crack was done of the field of battle. I also seen quite a few WWI German m16/18 helmets with that kind of cracking to them as well.
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#68413
05/13/2007 11:23 PM
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Very nice helmet, Shu. I would agree with Jerry that the crack was probably caused by concussion.
Cheers,
Darryl
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#68414
05/14/2007 01:23 AM
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Shu,
What a great example!
Can you imagine the headache though!
Bill
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#68415
05/14/2007 05:40 PM
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Great helmet Shu. Actually that helmet was damaged when Grenadiers from the 3rd SS-Panzer Grenadier Division "Totenkopf" assaulted the Russian 2nd line of defenses just outside Kursk in July 1943... Er, sorry... that's just me day dreaming. 
"And I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow"
-Cross of Iron
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#68416
05/14/2007 05:59 PM
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Great helmet. Regarding the green colour, is that what I have occasionally heard called "French Green". I think it was a paint used in rural areas, but I may be wrong.
Cheers,
-Mike
Magna res est vocis et silentii temperamentum.
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#68417
05/14/2007 06:15 PM
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I think helmet shells with that sort of cracking were sometimes used to hammer in grave markers. The liner condition doesn't suggest that on this one, though.
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#68418
05/15/2007 06:01 AM
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quote: Originally posted by darryl:
Very nice helmet, Shu. I would agree with Jerry that the crack was probably caused by concussion.
Cheers,
Can you imagine then what the concussion did to the poor soldier wearing the helmet... Nice lid Shu!
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#68419
05/16/2007 06:35 AM
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Cool helmet Shu.
Those SS camo helmets are rare....
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#68420
05/17/2007 09:44 AM
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Great helmet ,perhaps it came of the owners head and was blown about a bit during some heavy shelling .Rob
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