Helmet cover. Possible nice discussion

[Jack Aubrey]

Hello
Just auctioned at Ebay´s website
Original dug up item or faker aged?..... Please, post your thoughts
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[afrikasandman]

I find a few things a bit odd, why has the cloth survived but there is no liner? If this was dug you would likely see it with the liner still in it. Secondly the clips on these covers are usually rusted solid to the helmet, very few seem to be as loose and only minimally rusted compared to others I have seen. Just my thoughts. Matt

[Fritz]

The cover is 100% fake/repro, not a single part of it is period.

[GOTZVONB]

Ss helmet cover

I agree with the other forum members about this helmet cover. Why did the cloth survive, and not the helmet liner, or at least the non-leather parts of the liner? It just looks like another bogus piece of put-together junk to me. It's just one of the many fake SS helmet covers that has flooded the WWII militaria hobby, and that's been happening since at least the 1970's when I bought my 1st SS helmet cover from a Globe Militaria ad in The Shotgun News. That "original" helmet cover in NMint condition was a postwar fake, but luckily, I got back my $200. back from them. Those same fake SS helmet covers flooded the market in the late 1970's & early 80's until even the most novice collector could detect them as bogus postwar junk. I just wonder how many of them are still around these days. The hardware was bad, as well as the postwar Oak Leaf A camo cloth. Some guys even removed the foilage loops and tried to dump them on unsuspecting novice collectors, but I think for the most part, those helmet covers were properly exposed to the collecting community as fakes & ended up as movie props or reenactment headgear. Since those days, IMHO, the majority of SS helmet covers that I have seen are postwar, with the exception of the original examples shown in some above-average reference books, photos of vintage collections, and in some cases, on this forum. My advice to any novice collector that is considering buying an "original" SS helmet cover on today's market is to do your homework on the subject, and if possible, seek out advice from other collectors with a lot of experience with original SS camo, like some of the guys on this forum, and to avoid any freshly "dug" or "found" in a basement bargains on ebay or other places that have a history of listing questionable pieces. There's no substitute for years of experience, and I think that I can safely say that I'm probably not the only SS collector that has been "burned" with a bogus piece of SS camo. I know that I've spent a lot of time & money on SS militaria that I purchased as the "real deal", only to find out later that my rare helmet cover, cufftitle, collar tab, etc., was nothing but postwar junk. Just say NO to this helmet cover!!!

Best regards,

Tom

[Max Wünsche]

Looks similar to an SMWholesale one I saw.....although this one has been buried, trashed and looks like a few burn holes on the top....??

I agree with the other statements, why if it was dug up with the cover attached to this helmet did the liver not survive and yet the cover has?

[besslein]

The cover is 100% fake/repro, not a single part of it is period.

thats right

[Asper]

Helmet cover has incorrect contruction and it was obviously aged to deceive the novice. The helmet doesn't even play a role in here IMO.

[kammo man]

Rubbish in every way...............

It makes the "other" fake covers look "good"


owen

[Naval Enigma]

So does some guy have dozens of these buried in his yard fermenting like Kimchi pots?