I just picked this up at the Union show in NJ today. Very interesting piece. A Soviet SSh-60 but with leather liner rather than the usual oil-cloth that you normally see. Also there is hybrid leather and canvas chinstrap that is sort of interesting. The seller said this piece was bought by a Vietnam War veteran.
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The liner. Very interesting, similar but not the same as the Czech M53 or the Hungarian M71. -
The oil cloth in the humidity of the far east would make anyone replace it with leather, is it a regimental tailering job?.
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It doesn't look field replaced. I talked to Bob Clawson about this helmet and he thinks that the leather was probably used at the start or end of the production run. I'm thinking the shells might have been supplied to China and they put in the liners. In the early 1960s China would have had more leather than oilcloth...and that's a good about about how fast oilcloth would wear out in that humidity.Originally posted by Viktor The oil cloth in the humidity of the far east would make anyone replace it with leather, is it a regimental tailering job?.Comment
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