Original Waffen SS Camouflage Helmet Covers Factory Un-Finished!!

[horsetrainer]

This is the last batch of Original Waffen SS Un-Issued Helmet Covers I was able to purchase from the factory in Bavaria, Germany. They have gone through the whole building and found these. There are no more, so I was able to purchase all of them. Some are complete, some damaged from storage (a little mouse was a hungry), some 90% complete and some 80% complete (missing rocker hooks and springs).

[horsetrainer]

Some that are Un-Finished with original springs, rocker hooks and even have the “Salvage” edge of the camouflage fabric material pulled through the spring hole to have the spring sleeve cover ready to sew on.

[horsetrainer]

More photos and one of the damaged ones with mouse eaten holes.

[blamers]

???

Huh ???

[RD Rygaard]

HOLY CRAP!

[Daniel.S]

This is going to be a very entertaining thread:P

[maxmin todt]

x 100 ..since when have you had these?

[Fritz]

Looks nice! All of them were supposed to be type 2s.

Do you know what factory this was? I suppose a private business and not camp related?

Cheers

[horsetrainer]

My question to fellow collectors is that I would like to finish the un-finished ones and sell them as 90% Wartime completed and 10% completed present day? Sell them at a lower price. I know some collectors are purest and would like these to be left un-finished, but if they fall into the wrong hangs someone could complete them and sell them as 100% wartime completed.

[horsetrainer]

Here is one on a helmet shell.

[horsetrainer]

More photos

[horsetrainer]

last photos

[horsetrainer]

These are from the same factory that I received the first batch. Found inside wooden crates in an old storage building. They claim that they did not make these during the war and do not know how they got there! I have told others that the original owners daughter is in her 80's and she said these were not manufactured there, but her father did support the war effort. Maybe in the dying days of the war it was a military depot??? They even called me from Germany and I spoke to the presidents secretary (she spoke better english than he did) and told they did not make them during the war!

[Gran Sasso]

My question to fellow collectors is that I would like to finish the un-finished ones and sell them as 90% Wartime completed and 10% completed present day? Sell them at a lower price. I know some collectors are purest and would like these to be left un-finished, but if they fall into the wrong hangs someone could complete them and sell them as 100% wartime completed.

I would leave them as they are, and sell them that way.

Your intention of finishing them and let the buyer know is good of course, but who proves that the new owner would not sell it on as 100% original? Or the follow-following owner, etc. ...

So just because you finish them and pass that info on, is no guarantie they will not be sold late ron as 100% original ones

[horsetrainer]

How could I mark them that someone know they are one of the un-finished ones? My fear is that if I sell them un-finished some WILL finish them and sell them as 100% original! It is a double edge sword.