M16 Camo Helmet Mailed Home by General H.A. Allen

[Gary Cain]

That is a darned nice historical helemt!

[besslein]

fantastic pice of history!!!!

[Chip M]

Alan,

Besides being a nice helmet, I also got a chuckle out of the mailing label....where the general gave himself permission to mail the helmet home! Classic!

Chip

[gregM]

Very cool

[pvluger]

Love it!

[C. Roelens]

That's a rare find Alan... Congrats!

Chuck

[slayer]

I like that one.

[kemmelberg1920]

if this one could tell his story,,,, nice helmet,great find,greathings kemmelberg1920

[dragnet]

Great piece of First War history!

Indeed, and i do like these camos with thickly applied camo paint, ''its all in the brush work''!!!

[Overlord1944]

Spectacular historical helmet

[Brian S]

Based on the paper attached, that's pretty much the condition it was in when found. Leather of course deteriorated but as expected.

[Helmetz]

Awesome mail home helmet!

[ww1czechlegion]

Photo of another helmet mailed home by Brig. Gen. H.A. Allen

I wanted to bump this thread up. I discovered additional helmets that were mailed home by Brigadier General H.A. Allen. Apparently he was a prolific collector/souvenir hunter:


I have seen and photographed 3-other helmets that were mailed home by Brigadier General H.A. Allen, besides this one example that I own that is posted above in this thread. I do not own any of the other helmets.

1-Helmet is a cool "splotch" pattern camo with mail home label to a different person in Iowa.

2nd Helmet is a plain M16 or M17 with ship home label to someone else in Iowa.

3rd Helmet is another camo pattern helmet with mail home label to another person in Iowa.


These other 3-helmets reside in a museum with no chance of them ever being deaccessioned from the museum.

Here's a photo of the splotch pattern camo he mailed home to another person in Iowa. The full liner is intact inside the helmet, and the mailing label is inside the helmet. I'll have to see if I can dig up more photos of it that I have stored away. This pic was on my computer hard drive. The others are on dvd's stored away.



Best Regards,



Alan

[Willi Z.]

Alan, some great helmets with a unique history.

[Texasuberalles]

Nothing beats these 'tittie' helmets.