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Fantastic Photo's! Pete

Well.. I finally got hooked up to get photo's here, so you should be hearing lots from me now that I can do it! Wanted to share this one... was a super lucky catch. Sorry about the quality of the photos.. Tony is much better at it than I am. Pete

Heres part 2

Heres the UK made repro, part 1. As you can see its not going to fool any serious collector. Very poor materials & construction Pete

Tony I agree.. Especially seeing all these Tshakos side by side. The liners look like the only examples that have been in those ones. From the pics I don't see any evidence of re-stitching and that green thread is definitely not right. So that blows my theory #2 out of the water. -Chas or...

What we should do is try & create some sort of a time line as to when these started showing up. All of the older collectors should chime in & try to remember the first time they saw or handled one. The first one I saw, a Tshako, was in Boston about 1991-1993. It had a standard Prussian wappen...

It should be OK for that period of time. (If you were talking two or three years, then definately not). 12 weeks should not be an issue. Pete

Chas Thanks! Very much appreciated Pete

Chas Can you post a bigger image of the bottom left example? Pete

I have been talking to Sergio via e-mail. The site should be back up soon Pete

Maybe the guitar player for Foreigner?? :D

I would stay away from the chinstrap, its a repro. These are all over the place, especially on e-bay. Pete

I'll play too! Top Left... Top Right & bottom right! Pete

Can you get some close up photo's of the stitching on the visor?

When I was a kid.. Used to spend allot of time out in the backwoods areas of New Brunswick hunting & fishing.. I remember seeing these cabins and fishing shacks from the 1930's & 40's covered in tar-paper. When they put the tar-paper on with nails, they would use these as a sort of a washer in...

100% fake IMO.. Imported from Germany. To the best of my knowledge you will not see an original EM chinstrap with a makers mark & date. All the originals I have seen have been unmarked. Pete

Mike I also agree with Joe about the "double hole" questioning... As long as the helmet is a legit BJA example, there should be no effect on price. However, if the helmet is a piece-O-crap example that has been dicked with post war then that's another story.. I would say it cuts the value...

Mike Personally I don't think it devaluates the helmet at all., In fact I actively seek out helmets that have gone through the repair depot system. To me, it just adds that extra layer of history to an item. Don't get me wrong.. I love untouched helmets & war bond examples as well. But there...

Its possible to find any combination of holes & grommets on BJA helmets. -Grommets on both sets of holes. (I even have one re-issue helmet were feldgrau grommets have been installed just slightly overlapping the original brass or tombak grommets from the original wappen) -Sometimes you can see...

Hi Chas How could I forget you! Your welcome back to the maritimes.. anytime my friend. It was great getting to meet you this summer. Well..... Tony's comming over on tommorow, so I must go dust off the haubes & make sure they are perfectly aligned.. or I will never hear the end of it :) Pete