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[Dave Kane]

A lie or fraud by omission....

I suspect this is a liner SWITCH rather than a fabrication of the entire helmet!

In the camo helmet the band doesn't show a very good 'fit' so my best guess was a SHELL awaiting a liner


Dave

[CurtD]

A lie or fraud by omission....

I suspect this is a liner SWITCH rather than a fabrication of the entire helmet!

In the camo helmet the band doesn't show a very good 'fit' so my best guess was a SHELL awaiting a liner


Dave

No, the inside of the helmet is identical. Examine the scratches & rust.

[Sebastian Bianchi]

Here is my opinion about camo helmets, scientificaly speaking. There are ways to tell a helmet is 100% fake, but there is know way to tell one is 100% good. (of course experience and 'the stories' can make us 99% sure; but you never know, maybe we are in the matrix!)
JL

Can someone post the pictures here? I'm a member there but forgot my password. The e-mail thing didn't work....

[ROBB]

Yes Sirreeeee Bob its the same helmet .This guy pretends to be a good guy ,he has let himself down bigtime . If that helmet had appeared here ,most of us would have congratulated the owner . Sometimes all you can see is the $$$$$$$$$ in this game ,its all there for the taking on ebay . Sadly he will have lost a lot of friends over this ,Rob

[Dave Kane]

Try these!

Dave

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[Al P]

LOL, you beat me to it Dave.

Al

[Joe Martin]

I emailed this guy informing him that there are at least 3 forums watching him right now, aware of what he has done. Hopefully he'll pull it and spare the high bidder the loss.

[Dave Kane]

Yes, after messing with the photo editor I see it is indeed the SAME helmet!!

Dave

[mech91]

This is a sad state of affairs. With a finite number of original helmets available, and a growing interest in the hobby, we should have all known that this day would come. Money corrupts. With WWII being one of the most significant events in world history we should expect any artifacts related to it to go up in price. Were any of you glued to the TV watching the History Channel on the 60th aniversary of D-Day? To say that the fakers will never be able to produce a helmet that will fool an experienced collector is a strong, but very naive statement. Unless you have sophisticated and expensive carbon dating machines at your disposal, you can be fooled! Pro's have been faking paintings of the masters for big dollars for ages, and you better believe that a Picasso is infinately harder to fake than a mass produced steel military helmet. Whats going to happen is the price of a known original will go sky high (undecaled M42's for $1000+), collectors will hold on to thier helmets, the market will be full of fakes, and someone is going to jail for felonious fakery! I can see DD SS M35's going for $10,000 right around the corner!

[Joe Martin]

Ebay doesn't really offer a practical way to complain about this... Their automated system doesn't provide the options required to explain the situation properly and I am never able to find an email option for something like this...

Has anybody reported it yet somehow??

[Dave Kane]

Anticipating this joker's excuse of: 'Oh I submitted the wrong helmet interior shots' or something of that nuture let's keep this portion of the helmet in mind......his sloppy overpaint!!

Dave