The helmet has a steel lot number which places it’s production at mid-1939. The decals show good use yet still rate at 80%. This helmet retains 95% of it’s original factory applied smooth texture paint. Perhaps this is a result of the widespread usage of cloth camouflage covers by the SS as opposed to only occasional use by the other service branches. From what I have observed, early SS helmets were used unmodified throughout the war much more than their army/Luftwaffe counterparts. It is a double decal SS which like a significant number of like examples, served out the war without being refurbished or modified to conform to either 1940 or 1943 specifications. This is an example of one of my favorite kinds of helmet.
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