The Armour Archive

Link to pictures: http://s991.photobucket.com/albums/af32 ... 20Helmets/

I have a Spanish/German helmet found with a whole stockpile in a warehouse in Spain, so issued by the German govt for Franco's use in the 30's-40's. Based on the German M-42. Going market is $80. Will sell for $65

I also have a Russian WWII helmet. The liner has a partial melted area on it. For a small head. No history on that. $40

The British style helmet issued after or right at D-Day. No other history. $40

An American helmet, Korea era, but identicle to the WWII style, helmet with steel pot. Going rate is $80. Will sell for $50

And lastly, the American dough boy helmet from WWI up until the late 30's. This one I found in an old Legion Hall that was getting demolished in my hometown 30 year ago. Going rate is $80. Will sell for $65. This is in near mint condition.

Shipping and handling will be $12 per helmet.

Or shoot me reasonable offer.

free 2 me

yes.

www.ebay.com

I searched everywhere BUT Ebay. Silly me. Thanks Jeff. And now Wolf, you putz.

You could also investigate Auctionarms.com.

I sell militaria there, and still do, when I have appropriate stuff to sell and got better prices than off ebay.

-Badger-

I will third ebay. The market for WWII helmets is pretty good. Not so sure about the Spanish German helmets. They differ from true German helmets in a number of ways. I think I paid $20 for mine. a friend painted it to look Luftwaffe and we used to keep it in our Allied camp as a war souvenir. Real German helmets are salty, so the Spanish one, if it were to walk away is no super big deal.

US WWII helmets, the price changes of them a lot. I have quite a few I bought many years ago. There used to be a bin of them at a local surplus place. Most were Vietnam era, but if you spent enough time, you could find Korean war and WWII era ones. The best part...they were $4 each. Helmet liners (inner fiber helmet) also fluctuate, older ones sometomes get rebuilt by reenactors with new old stock webbing, others are usable as is.
Suffice it to say, you could get anywhere from $10 -$100 for a helmet, but that is a huge discrepancy. Most depends on the normal things: condition, providence, original paint....etc. It mostly depends on what the market will pay.

WWI helmets, just like WWII, but there are so many variations that depending on the person, it too can fluctuate. No guess on pricing there.

No idea on British or Russian helmets...

miscreant wrote:I searched everywhere BUT Ebay. Silly me. Thanks Jeff. And now Wolf, you putz.

No prob, bro. Actually, I have a big duffel with a half dozen of a similar cross-section of helmets. Interesting to see what they are worth. I wish I had bought more of them when I was a kid. Does anyone remember the mail order place that used to be in alexandria? Collector's armory?? (google less than helpful). My buddies with allowances bought a boatload of stuff from there, using my place as a maildrop. I wish I had half the stuff that came through my hands. Likewise guns I passed over at local antique shops....

Here's a link to some pics of the helmets if anyone is interested:

http://s991.photobucket.com/albums/af32 ... 20Helmets/

Is that a sticker decal on the Spanish helmet?

Yep. I put the Luftwaffe decal on it when I purchased it many moons ago.

I am intrested in the american helmets depending on how mush you are looking for.

Edward

You could also offer them for sale here on the Archive...

Yea, I can do that once I find out a little more about them.

Jeff J wrote:

miscreant wrote:I searched everywhere BUT Ebay. Silly me. Thanks Jeff. And now Wolf, you putz.

No prob, bro. Actually, I have a big duffel with a half dozen of a similar cross-section of helmets. Interesting to see what they are worth. I wish I had bought more of them when I was a kid. Does anyone remember the mail order place that used to be in alexandria? Collector's armory?? (google less than helpful). My buddies with allowances bought a boatload of stuff from there, using my place as a maildrop. I wish I had half the stuff that came through my hands. Likewise guns I passed over at local antique shops....

Interarms? By the river??

I remember going there as a kid.

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:

Jeff J wrote:

miscreant wrote:I searched everywhere BUT Ebay. Silly me. Thanks Jeff. And now Wolf, you putz.

No prob, bro. Actually, I have a big duffel with a half dozen of a similar cross-section of helmets. Interesting to see what they are worth. I wish I had bought more of them when I was a kid. Does anyone remember the mail order place that used to be in alexandria? Collector's armory?? (google less than helpful). My buddies with allowances bought a boatload of stuff from there, using my place as a maildrop. I wish I had half the stuff that came through my hands. Likewise guns I passed over at local antique shops....

Interarms? By the river??

I remember going there as a kid.

I don't think so. Interarms was on (Clark??) down at the bottom of old town to the south of kings. They sold imported guns. This place was up on slaters, inland from the coal plant. They sold a lot of surplus stuff that'd be worth boatloads today. Lot's of cool Nazi crap. Not so much into the German stuff today, but after watching a lot of Rat Patrol, 12:00 High, and Hogans Heros as a kid, it was the thing.

Rat Patrol was 'da bomb!!" I found a couple books at a used book store and they were actually really good, too. Hogan's Heroes, what great uniform research those guys did.