soviet WW2 gasmask SchM41

[Tevion]

Hi,

what are your oppinions on that SchM41 gasmask and what would be a realistic price for it?
Can you say something about the stamps?


Best regards,
Lukas

[Tevion]

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[Stive]

It is a gas mask of the Soviet Army of a sample of 1955, and has no relation to WW2. The price of it will be very small.
Here the photo of a gas mask of RKKA on World War II.

[Tevion]

Hi!

Thanks for your message!
Are you sure?

Because I learned that from 1944 the connecting piece for the filter was bound with a metal cramp ring instead of the cloth band.

Also the air channels were white since the 1950's.


http://www.gasmasklexikon.com/Page/Ussr-Schlem.htm

Best regards,
Lukas

[Stive]

Of course it is sure, on a mask there is a brand of 1957.
And the fabric strip on your mask, is a usual insulating tape of the period of the USSR

[Tevion]

Thank you!

[Stive]

I apologize Lukas, for not absolutely exact information. As I was prompted by other expert, figure 57 it is the size of a rubber mask, and the gas mask most likely is released in later time of 70th or 80th

[uscob]

The Size is the § in the circle, but maybe the 57 isn't the Date.
Yesterday I had a Mask in my Hands marked with F 0.123 at this position.
What can this mean?

[Wesley's Dad]

Probably a wartime mask. It is a Schlem Maska made between 1944 and 1950. 1944 production begins the rounded oval opening in the snout piece. Before this, it was pointed or "eye" shaped. Also, 1950 and later masks do not have the separate anti-fog vent snorkels, they are molded into the rubber of the mask instead.