M16 Stahlhelm - Freikorps?

[RON]

What do you think of this one gentlemen?
Could this be one very hot double decal Freikorps? :-?
Wasn't it too early (c1919-1920) for a WW1 helmet 'recycled' by the Freikorps to have a transitional liner and such a chinstrap (seems adjustable)? :-k
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[istanbulian]

Wasn't it too early (c1919-1920) for a WW1 helmet 'recycled' by the Freikorps to have a transitional liner and such a chinstrap (seems adjustable)? :-k
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Absolutely; this type of liner only arrived in 1933. It also has M35 rivets.

That's a repro chinstrap for sure.

 

[poniatowski]

So many of these show up on ebay, that you'd think every person in Germany was issued one. I wonder if I'd be able to tell a fake if I held it in my hands? Some of these guys are pretty good at distressing paint and such.

Ron

 

[RON]

Here's another "Freikorps" with a correct wartime liner... However, it looks artificially aged to me and I don't trust the source/seller. Yet someone paid almost $1,625 for it!!
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[09fritz2547]

I think that is definitely a WW2 Finnish helmet, pictures of these apperad in the wartime magazine SIGNAL. Seller is Latvian, not impossible it comes from the Baltics.

Johan