Opinion on RA helmet

[Fabio]

There are many helmet's experts here.

I would like to know their impression about this helmet on sale .....

Thanks a lot
Fabio

[Fabio]

ra helmet 2

Another view of the same helmet

[Fabio]

ra helmet 3

And in the end the internal part of it.

Now the Jury speaks ....
Regards
Fabio

[flashider]

The helmet posted is repainted, the insigna is fake...don't buy it ...all is trash.

[Fabio]

Accident over for me

Stefano,your answr means peace?
Can we start again?
Cheers and ....Sorry for that!

[flashider]

Yes....mean peace

[Paolo Marzetti]

The helmet posted is repainted, the insigna is fake...don't buy it ...all is trash.

I agree with this note;the paint is too bright.In reality it was blue
and not light blue.The stencil is very approximative, and not well
done.These blue air force helmets ,with yellow stencils, have been
used for a short while, and are not easy to get.Two repos of this
helmet appeared on eBay in very recent times... Ciao, PaoloM

[Lafitte]

I'm agree with Flash on every point!!
One time for ever:
Italian RAI (flying corps, field troops and Para ADRA troops) never use blugrey m.33 helmets with yellow badges in pre-bellic era like in time war era!!
This is it enough for know about the originallity of this helmeth.

[Fabio]

Thank you

Many thanks to all for the complete and very clear answers.
I appreciate it a lot.
Cheers
ps there is a gangster selling right now this and many others italian helmets on ebay.
And theres is another criminal selling a late post war flying jacket like war time italian gear ....

[Paolo Marzetti]

Italian RAI (flying corps, field troops and Para ADRA troops) never use blugrey m.33 helmets with yellow badges in pre-bellic era like in time war era!!
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Are you sure? Ok it is not the theme of this thread... PaoloM

[Lafitte]

What is it the theme of thread?
The specification about the blugrey m.33 helmets for RAI (and his specialities) with yellow badges is it for others piecese too.
Unlucky i don't know original exaples of prebellic m.33 greyblue helmets with yellow badges like i don't know bellic m.33 helmets in greygreen with black spayed badges of RAI ( the helmets of Italian Areonautic Corp in Belgium and m.32-34 Czechs helmets are out of this theme because have got others particolarities)

[flashider]

Unfortunately I never saw in my hands an original M33 greygreen helmet with a black RAI insigna but I believe that exist as the czech M34 used by "LORETO".

I don't have any info about the blugrey RAI helmets with yellow insigna...

Do you have any period photos?

I saw in the past an helmet in a collection but I wasn't sure about his originality

[Paolo Marzetti]

...
Unlucky i don't know original exaples of prebellic m.33 greyblue helmets with yellow badges like i don't know bellic m.33 helmets in greygreen with black spayed badges of RAI ( the helmets of Italian Areonautic Corp in Belgium and m.32-34 Czechs helmets are out of this theme because have got others particolarities)

Lafitte, do you think they don't exist, because you've never seen one... or you've never seen a photo of the time of these helmets?
Come on!We'll deal in other threads the stencils you're denying. PaoloM

[Paolo Marzetti]

I don't want to loose time with scans or other comments. So who is interested
in this matter can give a glance to this volume:
SME Ufficio Storico-A. Viotti: Aeronautica Italiana:Uniformi e Distintivi nella
2^Guerra Mondiale, Ed.1989
page 50: grey green helmets with black stencils used in the war-time, worn
by the official band of the R. Aeronautica.
page 22: quotation of the use of the grey blue M.33
page 25,caption: quotation of the use of the yellow stencil

and so on. Bye PaoloM

[Lafitte]

I don't have that book Paolo, please post the scans can be interesting for the collectors.
Unlucky i never see one of this, probably rarest at the time too, can be interesting have got the regolamentation about thats particolarities if at the time that was published.