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    • SARGE
      Yes, the Barracked Police (light green collar tabs and shoulder boards) could wear the marksmanship lanyard but the regular police (dark green insignia) could not.     Early Grenzpolizei / Grenztruppen could also wear the marksmanship lanyard, along with collar Tresse as shown below.    
    • SARGE
      A nice example.  
    • Lonewolf523
      Gents, I have been looking to find out something about this gentleman but no luck.  I can't find a name in the jacket.  There can't be that many General Officers with the Military Cross?  I am hoping someone could give be a little more information or tell me where to look.  I am assuming that it World War 2. Thanks in advance. LW
    • patches
      Frau Major Alexandra Schütz-Knospe and the Heeresmusikkorps Neubrandenburg in Berlin 2012 doing their thing, lots of Facing Movements Marching Evolutions  and all that  Good Stuff.      
    • S.ChrisKelly
      Original decals are flush.  Look closely at both decals and a barely noticeable clear border/flange can be seen.  This is common among reproduction decals.  The helmet has been re ~ painted from its original color.  The black paint is not original to the helmet.  Again, the leather liner and chin straps are awesome. I wonder if it's from a movie costume department.  May have been used in some film or television prodoction decades ago.   Below are some pictures of an un ~ adulterated helmet I own that's got an SE66 stamp.  The batch number indicates this was a polizei helmet.  Hope these pictures are useful as a rough reference.     Here's another helmet I "restored" sonetime 1992 ~ 1993. The helmet cover is made from the remnants of an original Heer zeltbahn, the paint is black outdoor grill paint, and the liner is real sheepskin, made by George Birringer.  The liner suspension ring has a 1940 date.  
    • tyler3
      I personally can’t make out the heat stamp, but I took the net off and I’ll post some better photos I messed around with the settings for the heat stamp photo to try and make it a little clearer. Let me know if it’s not good enough.
    • Preppy Picker
      Personally I can’t decide one way or the other without pictures of the decals. These pictures are way too blurry to make out any helpful details. Picture of makers stamp and good pictures of decals. Certain makers used certain decals so the pictures requested will help with that connection. 
    • MartinB
    • themick
      That's good.  Prussian Wappen and cockades and the lower priced ones compared to the other states.  
    • Rakkasan187
      Agree with Marshall 100%   Original SS helmets with double or even single decals will be in tens of thousands of dollars...   Try to find the heat stamp and makers marks and that will reveal more about the maker of the helmet as well as the markings on the aluminum liner band..   An Original SS helmet is The Crown Jewel for many who collect TR or even SS related items, and so many dubious helmets have been made over the years and the unknowing ends up spending thousands of dollars on fake junk...   Leigh 
    • Marshallj
      Original DD SS helmets are worth $$$$$.
    • Mr. Bushido
      This is an interesting item.   I think these kanji are "直明" and "柳川".   I'm not a sword professional so I don't know what they mean, but they look like names.   If they were names, the former would usually be "Na-o-a-ki" or "Ta-da-a-ki", and the latter "Ya-na-ga-wa".
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