Palmenmuster cover?

[maxmin todt]

Palmenmuster? Or just early "leaf" pattern?

[Honor]

Palmenmuster? Or just early "leaf" pattern?

looks like it

[maxmin todt]

So they made covers of this pattern too?

[Dr. Strangelove]

yes

Yes and don't worry, there are plenty of fakes to choose from.

[maxmin todt]

But these covers was quite rare? Or regular like platanenmuster covers?

[Fritz]

Only the first photo shows a palm cover.

Palm covers, unlike palm smocks, were/are very rare.

[Peterth]

FIRST photo is from SS-KB Willi Altstadt, Wiking division - HERE on KBarchive...
I placed other photo with palm cover here in this topic: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=379796
you can also clearly see one by TK division in summer 41, SS-KB Ernst Baumann HERE on KBarchive...

[Varsity]

Great Photos!

[Regen]

But these covers was quite rare? Or regular like platanenmuster covers?

Hello Max.
these are extra rare helm'coverings. there are many legends connected with his production.
on doc.photos, they meet only on soldiers TK(soldiers from "NORD", were supplied from a warehouse TK).

[jotuntroll]

Regen, that is member norge helmet cover picture you are showing.

Note, that cover is norwegian Ustuf. Frontkjenmper nametaged and solid proof of vereran estate purcase.

[kammo man]

Cover is amazing in every way.

owen

[AdamT]

I don't think they were extra rare before 1945. There (probably) were no zeltbahns to cut after the war.
Adam

[Höhe 112]

I don't think they were extra rare before 1945. There (probably) were no zeltbahns to cut after the war.
Adam

At today: No zeltbahnen were ever made from palmenmuster material during the war
Only tarnjacken and some of these rarely encountered helmet covers (surely made from the reuse of tarnjacken scrap material) are known to exist.

[Asper]

Regen, that is member norge helmet cover picture you are showing.

Note, that cover is norwegian Ustuf. Frontkjenmper nametaged and solid proof of vereran estate purcase.

Correct. This is the only surviving original with solid provenance I know of and feel comfortable with. Rarer than a pre-war sown clip cover.

[AdamT]

> At today: No zeltbahnen were ever made from palmenmuster material during the war

You can not be sure of this. You have never seen one and I didn't either but that does not mean they were not produced. There were probably a coupe of milions of zeltbahns produced during the war and how many of them have you seen to be sure of that?

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> Only tarnjacken and some of these rarely encountered helmet covers (surely made from the reuse of tarnjacken scrap material) are known to exist.

Helmet covers in palm pattern may have been quite popular, you can find them on a few period pictures.

And you haven't mentioned camo caps which were also made in this pattern.

Adam