The ARENDAL SS-helmet (What a history).

[DeMil]

Hi all helmet collectors.
Here you will get a bit of a history on a SS-helmet:

Here in Norway and Sweden this helmet is only called "the Arendal helmet".
Arendal is a town south in Norway.

- For many years ago the owner of a car dealership in Arendal found this helmet on the attic of his shop, a part that had been horse stables under the war. See the pencil writing inside with signature and the text: found 2/8-45 in the field...

And here it begins:


1. Somebody found this helmet, wrote inside with pencil and put in on the attic in the horse stables in Arendal.
2. A car dealer found and after some years sold the helmet to a collector in Arendal.
3. This guy ended collecting and sold the helmet to collector Knut in 1995.
4. I bought the helmet in 1998.
5. I sold the helmet to another collector in Arendal in 2000.
6. This collector sold the helmet back to Knut in 2001.
7. I bought the helmet back from Knut in 2003.
8. I sold the helmet to a collector in Sweden in 2006.
9. The Swedish collector sold the helmet to Gisle in 2009.
10. Gisle sold the helmet back to Knut in 2011.
11. I bought the helmet back from Knut 25th May 2013.

Totally crazy how a helmet can go back and forth in all these years

Hope you like the helmet (ET) and the history.

Regards

Derek

[kyles bullets]

That's a mouthful. Crazy how it traveled to so many places...

[DeMil]

ET dekal.

[DeMil]

other side.

[DeMil]

Inside.

[DeMil]

The pencil writing.

[Adam S.]

I haven't been collecting as long as most people but I don't understand why people buy back things they sell off.

BUT that is still a great story and a fantastic helmet.

[DeMil]

ink stamping.

[Michael L]

That's an amazing M40 ET SS. Congrats on getting it back.

Would the previous owner be King Knut?

[DougB]

Super helmet. It hasn't come to Canada yet, so there is still a journey ahead of it LOL.

[DeMil]

I haven't been collecting as long as most people but I don't understand why people buy back things they sell off.

BUT that is still a great story and a fantastic helmet.

Mostly this helmet went back and forth between me and Knut.
We used it as a "bank". When I needed money I sold it and when I had money I bought it back

[DeMil]

That's an amazing M40 ET SS. Congrats on getting it back.

Would the previous owner be King Knut?

I never heard anybody call him King Knut
Knut is a well respected collector here in Norway, collecting nice items from both sides - SS front fighters and Norwegian freedom fighters.

[Adam S.]

Mostly this helmet went back and forth between me and Knut.
We used it as a "bank". When I needed money I sold it and when I had money I bought it back

Thank you - that makes sense.

[billbert]

That's coin of the realm m40 SS..Billbert

[SSamir]

Hi all helmet collectors.
Here you will get a bit of a history on a SS-helmet:

Here in Norway and Sweden this helmet is only called "the Arendal helmet".
Arendal is a town south in Norway.

- For many years ago the owner of a car dealership in Arendal found this helmet on the attic of his shop, a part that had been horse stables under the war. See the pencil writing inside with signature and the text: found 2/8-45 in the field...

And here it begins:


1. Somebody found this helmet, wrote inside with pencil and put in on the attic in the horse stables in Arendal.
2. A car dealer found and after some years sold the helmet to a collector in Arendal.
3. This guy ended collecting and sold the helmet to collector Knut in 1995.
4. I bought the helmet in 1998.
5. I sold the helmet to another collector in Arendal in 2000.
6. This collector sold the helmet back to Knut in 2001.
7. I bought the helmet back from Knut in 2003.
8. I sold the helmet to a collector in Sweden in 2006.
9. The Swedish collector sold the helmet to Gisle in 2009.
10. Gisle sold the helmet back to Knut in 2011.
11. I bought the helmet back from Knut 25th May 2013.

Totally crazy how a helmet can go back and forth in all these years

Hope you like the helmet (ET) and the history.

Regards

Derek

Basically this helmet is a "tramp", she's been around, and I want a piece of that "aSS", as well. When your tired of it, shoot me an email-share the "love".

Regards
Samir