Para helmet

[mdj]

Hi,

What are your opinions about this one?

Thanks

Martin

[Sergey K.]

all components original and camo period in my opinion. Sad about missed chinstrap.

[Julfrenchie]

Like Sergey, it looks legit to me interesting camo

[mdj]

thanks guys for your opnions.

heres another one from the 'camo'

martin

[eubank]

A very curious colour ( camo?) scheme, could well be post war...nice helmet apart from that. Would be interesting to see what it fetches next week.

[Willi Z.]

Can't say this one does anything for me. No rim area wear at all. Just seems strange, as such a color is worse than its normal color in terms of camouflage. Like a neon sign.

[phild]

Looks similar to KM Ship Gray to me. FJ helmets were worn by some manned torpedo pilots and perhaps other KM combat small unit personnel. If this one was so Used it seems unusual but not impossible that the LW Eagle would have been painted around and preserved.

[Tim R. B.]

I feel the camo paint has been applied postwar, I can't guess why as it's not convincing camo scheme and no fake wear has been added to the helmet.

[mdj]

I feel the camo paint has been applied postwar, I can't guess why as it's not convincing camo scheme and no fake wear has been added to the helmet.

Could be but unlikely. Who would paint an original para helmet...

[Willi Z.]

Plenty of original FJ helmets have been painted over, during the decades before there were fake FJ helmets. Back when an original FJ cost $500, camos were selling for $1500-2500.

Trying to figure out why someone did something is the wrong way to authenticate something.

[eubank]

Yes who knows why, may simply have been done decades ago by the veteran who brought it back so it looked nicer on his shelf.

[WalterB]

Could be but unlikely. Who would paint an original para helmet...

Even if the paint is period applied (which, if I had to bet, I would bet that it is not), in my eyes, it is.....ugly. The paint color is really unattractive from a camo point of view. If you are considering buying it, personally I would wait for another more worthwhile example. I dont intend to be rude in my response, but the look of it just doesnt do it for me on many levels.

[Shaun Winkler]

Not a Camo I would be comfortable owning. It is on auction at Bosleys for those interested.

[Humble480]

Sold for $1800 USD

....+20% auction fee, +VAT, +shipping

[whatthecrunchyo]

Looks similar to KM Ship Gray to me. FJ helmets were worn by some manned torpedo pilots and perhaps other KM combat small unit personnel. If this one was so Used it seems unusual but not impossible that the LW Eagle would have been painted around and preserved.

I agree with this possibility. Mark Felton Productions on YouTube posted several scenes of these guys in one video. Would be interesting to see if anyone can extract if the helmets were painted or not.

Jordan