Photo Of The Early Pattern M16 Stahlhelm.

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What is this one called again? The helmet with the Straight Curtain? Three of them are wearing it as we see.

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Most collectors call this variation the "square dip" Model 1916 Stahlhelm.  It seems these helmets had a tendency to crack at the area of the extreme bend in the skirt.  Ludwig Baer says the manufacture of these M16 helmets was discontinued when this cracking flaw was discovered.

 

 

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12 hours ago, SARGE said:

Most collectors call this variation the "square dip" Model 1916 Stahlhelm.  It seems these helmets had a tendency to crack at the area of the extreme bend in the skirt.  Ludwig Baer says the manufacture of these M16 helmets was discontinued when this cracking flaw was discovered.

 

 

That's it Square Dip, forgot that. thanks.

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Found this great photo.

 

A pile of new helmets, just delivered and ready to be issued, some still wrapped in paper we see, and all of them appear to be Square Dips. This being sometime in 1916, probably as late as the late summer early fall of 1916, as this is in the former Russian Poland, the East Front got them later then the in the West as the West got priority of issuance.