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    #31
    and something special and interesting about the chinstraps...did you ever saw something like this inside fj chinstrap ??
    It is something like newspaper or something like that ..
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        #33
        Hi Martin, yes, I can confirm that authentic FJ chinstraps like yours are indeed constructed with newsprint like yours (at least, I have seen this type of newsprint on the inside of several other authentic FJ chinstraps)
        When you go home
        Tell them for us and say
        For your tomorrow
        We gave our today

        --Inscription in the 5th Marine Division cemetery,
        Iwo Jima 1945

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          #34
          Thank you Walter ,interesting !
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            #35
            Nice looking helmet !

            Lots of original FJ straps have newsprint inside them, but just as many don't. It is nice to see, but cannot be used to determine the originality of a particular set of straps. I think the factories used bits of old paper or strips of cloth as templates around which they stitched their leather and chamois.

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              #36
              Originally posted by SMP View Post
              Nice looking helmet !

              I think the factories used bits of old paper or strips of cloth as templates around which they stitched their leather and chamois.
              Yep!
              Esse Quam Videri

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                #37
                Nice
                Named two time..

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                  #38
                  I have just been cleaning up a relic fj helmet and also spotted fragments of brown printed paper. So that's new to me but no doubt it's original!

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