DAK Palm tree hand painted insignia on helmet

[Spanish Freiwillige]

Nooky you are right, the insignia definitely looks real to the helmet, the one I saw a while back, not the one at warelics, but one here in Mexico from a family estate had the palm emblem hand painted in white, it looked quite real and matched the overall condition of the helmet, the paint was the correct pinkish type found in some Afrika helmets.

This helmet was sold for 600 US, the liner take my word for it was replica. The helmet is the collection of a man I know. Maybe I can reach him and see the helmet again to examine it

[ITALIANWARFRONT]

THIS IS IN MY COLLECTION AND IS THE ONLY ONE I EVER HAD IN 30 YEARS OF COLLECTING.
PINK PAINT MIXED WITH DESERT SAND, HOPE YOU LIKE IT.



http://www.italianwarfront.com/

[ITALIANWARFRONT]

Palm

[ITALIANWARFRONT]

[Spanish Freiwillige]

Italian war fornt, very pretty lid, a beauty to bad the palm tree emblem is near gone, still a beautiful helmet. Thanks for shareing it with us

[Martin E]

Perry, The owner is George Findell from Rock Hill, SC... He had the very large display of German equipment, weapons, uniforms etc......BILL

Prior to the 2004 MAX, George had a huge front page article in the Rock Hill Herald showing off his impressive collection.

[1940jfm]

Thats true a nice one you catch there it is not bad that the tree have near gone i realy like how the aplay the sand/pain job there.

It looks great.

[Mike39]

THIS IS IN MY COLLECTION AND IS THE ONLY ONE I EVER HAD IN 30 YEARS OF COLLECTING.
PINK PAINT MIXED WITH DESERT SAND, HOPE YOU LIKE IT.



http://www.italianwarfront.com/

Love that helmet Giorgio, like honey to the bees !

As for the palm tree decal, most of you would have seen the following DAK helmet photo on GMA before the helmet was sold. Once again, difficult to know for sure if it was period applied, but this helmet came from a well known well established collector.
Believe it or not ?

Mike

[marc]

Love that helmet Giorgio, like honey to the bees !

As for the palm tree decal, most of you would have seen the following DAK helmet photo on GMA before the helmet was sold. Once again, difficult to know for sure if it was period applied, but this helmet came from a well known well established collector.
Believe it or not ?

Mike

is it not only the name that concerns me with this lid

[Spanish Freiwillige]

Mike that is a very nice lid, never hava i seen the insignia on the inside skirt, plus the detail of the artillery piece simbol is quite nice, is there a picture of the overal condition of the helmet?

So far the liner by the little portion that appears seams to have the conditon of tropical helmet linersl.

[Mike39]

Mike that is a very nice lid, never hava i seen the insignia on the inside skirt, plus the detail of the artillery piece simbol is quite nice, is there a picture of the overal condition of the helmet?

So far the liner by the little portion that appears seams to have the conditon of tropical helmet linersl.

Hi Jaime
If you look up Grenadier Military Antiques & go to his helmet section, I believe the photo's are still on his site as the helmet is on hold. It's a nice looking helmet but with a few to many question marks to make you feel completely warm & fuzzy about it.

Mike

[Bob Lyons]

Palm trees on helmets, ....ok, ...so show me one period photo of a helmet being worn in the field, which has a palm tree and swaz on it, .....

Bob

[Dan P]

Palm trees on helmets, ....ok, ...so show me one period photo of a helmet being worn in the field, which has a palm tree and swaz on it, .....

Bob

Even if no period photos exist, that doesn't mean this insignia wasn't wartime applied We are, after all, most likely talking about a very small number of helmets this insignia was potentially applied to, most of which probably never even survived the war

Dan

[Mike39]

Even if no period photos exist, that doesn't mean this insignia wasn't wartime applied We are, after all, most likely talking about a very small number of helmets this insignia was potentially applied to, most of which probably never even survived the war

Dan

I tend to agree with you Dan. The DAK had no issues with painting divisional markings on the skirts of their helmets as did other members of the Wehrmacht. So it's totally conceivable that the palm tree tatical emblem was applied on the side of a helmet. The hard part is finding a known original that can be relied upon as a reference as well as period photo's that let us know it was done.
So there is the new challange to us all,

Cheers
Mike

[Dan P]

I tend to agree with you Dan. The DAK had no issues with painting divisional markings on the skirts of their helmets as did other members of the Wehrmacht. So it's totally conceivable that the palm tree tatical emblem was applied on the side of a helmet. The hard part is finding a known original that can be relied upon as a reference as well as period photo's that let us know it was done.
So there is the new challange to us all,

Cheers
Mike

Sounds like a good challenge Mike. Not sure if I'll be successful, but I'm going to make an effort to find a period photo with this darn palm tree/swastika insignia on the side of a helmet.

If anyone knows of such a photo, please try to post it.

Dan