Dirk Posted March 9, 2022 Share #1 Posted March 9, 2022 Anybody have any expertise in these? In a friends collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 15, 2022 Share #2 Posted March 15, 2022 Guess it's alright, the Nationalist Chinese got a load of M35 Helmets direct from Germany in the 30s, and when the helmet was first produced. Here's one with metal cockade applied rather then painted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 17, 2022 Share #3 Posted March 17, 2022 A Whole Formation wearing the type in the 30s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share #4 Posted March 17, 2022 Heat lot # just out of a known range but I don’t know how definitive the list is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hsin C. Posted March 29, 2022 Share #5 Posted March 29, 2022 It looks like a very bad paint job to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share #6 Posted March 29, 2022 Thanks! That’s what was suspected….the dealer is know to push fakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maple Creek Posted June 16, 2022 Share #7 Posted June 16, 2022 I don't think this one is authentic. Looks like a reissued M35. The helmet has a zinc liner with rounded chinstrap bales of the type used starting early 1940. This would be well after the Germans stopped supplying the Chinese with helmets. It doesn't make sense that this type of helmet would have found its way to Nationalist Chinese forces. As Dirk pointed out, the lot number is out of the current known range, which is 2072-3120. (This range based on personal research). Here's a link to an authentic one and some additional information on the type from my website: Chinese M35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share #8 Posted June 16, 2022 Maple creek thank you for weighing in as well…I passed along the bad news to the owner, but I suspect he knew what the result would be! Again thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 9, 2022 Share #9 Posted August 9, 2022 Another one of the type helmet in use, here with one of them armed with a Polish Browning Automatic Rifle( Browning wz. 1928). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 11, 2022 Share #10 Posted August 11, 2022 And another, good shot of the decal/painted shield on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 7, 2023 Share #11 Posted January 7, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 5, 2023 Share #12 Posted October 5, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 9 Share #13 Posted February 9 Not only with the German Helmet but with a German 37mm Pak 36, in their theater this rather obsolent model gave pretty good service against the Japanese tank used then, they being lightly armored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 19 Share #14 Posted February 19 Another gift from Germany, the Sd.Kfz. 222 Armored Car, the Commanders wearing the M35s, not sure on the rest of the crews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 6 Share #15 Posted March 6 In Shanghai, here chit chatting with a Tommy of the 1st Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles in Shanghai in 1937, we guess just outside the International Settlement, Britain evacuated its garrisons from mainland Chinese cities, particularly Shanghai, only in August 1940. The 1st Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles would return to England and in due course be converted to a Glider infantry unit, goes into action on D-Day with the 6th Airborne Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 13 Share #16 Posted April 13 The German M35 Helmets evidently seen continued use well after the war with Japan ended, not sure with the Army itself, but with Police Departments. Here the Shanghai Police in 1948, the helmet painted a Gloss of an unknown Dark Color has some kind Device affixed to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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