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can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:55 am
by DER SOLDATEN
Is this a ww2 German M40 shell? The vent hole looks very strange.
It came in battle ship grey with a decal on the right side.The decal was yellow with a black horse .I repainted it
The markings inside is 64 not lot mark.I have another one marked Q64 with no lot number.
Can someone plese help
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g250/ ... OLLECTION/
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:57 am
by DER SOLDATEN
DER SOLDATEN wrote:Is this a ww2 German M40 shell? The vent hole looks very strange.
It came in battle ship grey with a decal on the right side.The decal was yellow with a black horse .I repainted it
The markings inside is 64 not lot mark.I have another one marked Q64 with no lot number.
Can someone plese help
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g250/ ... OLLECTION/
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:26 am
by ShaneH
Early post war Q64
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:16 pm
by Sheikh Al Stranghi
That's right, the vent hole is the biggest giveaway.
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:00 pm
by BedsnHerts
A shield with prancing black horse on a yellow field is the city arms of Stuttgart. Feuerwehr helmet maybe?
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:36 am
by DER SOLDATEN
I have noticed that some wartime helmets have different vent holes.I was at a collectors house and he had some wartime originals that had this type of vent. Is there any other way to tell?
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:36 am
by BedsnHerts
From the German Helmets website
The Quist firm was the primary source of remanufactured M1940 style helmets for the West German border guards and police. This firm reproduced the M1940 helmet in near perfect World War II quality steel in shell sizes marked "Q64." Unlike wartime helmets, these helmets did not receive a series number because they were manufactured in a single production run. As a result, any "Q64" marked shell that bears no series number is in fact a postwar remanufactured helmet of general World War II steel quality.
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:30 am
by ShaneH
The distance between the vent hole and the split pin is a big give away.
Early m40 Qs had small vent holes then later in the war they got bigger and were shaped like a donut.
The vent hole on your helmet is big and flat and looks noting like a war time vent of any helmet manufacturer.
Q m40
Re: can someone help me to identify this helmet?M40???
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:05 pm
by DER SOLDATEN
Thank you all this has been a big help.