m35 various overpaints :)

[trevor87bikes]

Carles tell your brother to investigate mate could be more .....it looks like it's seen a hard life this one

[Spagg199th]

Cheers fellers what do you think of the pot

Okay, salty original lid with a lot of character to it. I like that white-wash peeking through in spots. This one really has that been there done that look to it.

Congrats,
Sal

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Cheers Sal ...I do love the been there look ..hopefully the feller gets more in ..he's got my number of any do

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Anymore opinions

[grndevil44]

good find, Norfolk ain't too bad eh,

just when you mention about the paint totally gone in spots and down to the bare metal, have seen this on lids before, (other than flakey paint, I don't know the ins and outs of why) but , lucky this one has been in the dry so its not caused it to rust, original chinsrtap too

[Adam S.]

Looks like a nice honest helmet. Good find!

[Fred S]

under loupe can see sand in the final thick paint bits ....some reason in places the paint is completely gone to bare shell no sign of abbrasion even under loupe ...Paul m informed me he had seen this on other white /winter painted helmets ....regards Matt

Hi Matt,

I agree with Paul, you'll see it often.

I call those helmets "sesoned" as the different type of paints show clearly that they've been used during different seasons and certainly several years. Seing bare metal on those doesn't shock me at all: Sometimes several layers of paint are a worst protection for metal that only one and paint do chip easily then.

A similar example:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=455865

[ENGLISH BOB]

Nice find Matt,
Love the interior,nice and untouched,hard to find anything like that in old blighty these days you did well.

Cheers

Bob

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Cheers fellers makes me more comfortable with it now ....that's a cool pot Fred