Schutztruppe helmet review request.

[PawelGPysz.]

Hi there. What do you think about this helmet?

 

[pickelhauben]

It is nice looking other than the stains.
Although the threads on the wappen's posts look to be very fine.
Should they be coarse threads like on the standard wappens ?

 

[PawelGPysz.]

I noticed that the thread is thin, maybe later they were soldered if they are not as they should be?

 

[pickelhauben]

I think it is a post war add on to the pith helmet.

 

[PawelGPysz.]

Is this wappen a replica? Was it simply not supposed to be on this helmet?

 

[Peter_Suciu]

The handband is attached to the helmet via a system similar to the British-designed Vero's Detactable Helmet Liner, which was patented n the 1920s. I've never seen a single helmet from any country that had this type of system to hold the headband in use prior to the 1920s at the earliest.

I believe all pre-1918 helmets would have cork spaces or buckram spacers (looks like a "zigzag" around the headband. I believe the helmet is a post-1960s replica dressed up unfortunately.

 

[Zebedeus]

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Sorry but the tropenhelm is a badly put-togheter pith helmet. The eagle is a galvano copie.