Hi Matt, I know I'm stating the obvious here but the St. Edwards"s Crown (aka Queen's Crown) was technically used between June 1953 and September 2022. Regarding your cap, I think your cap may be earlier than 1980's.  RAF caps can be tough to date because the same style and basically the same color were used from pre WWII to present.  One of the reasons that I think yours maybe earlier than 1980's is the chin strap appears to be real leather.  From about the 1960's on the chin strap most commonly seen is made of a  synthetic leatherette/vinyl type material.  Also and I can't tell from your photos, are the side chin strap buttons plastic or cloth covered?  If cloth covered that would also indicate construction of the cap much earlier than the 1980's.  Sorry not a definitive answer but my observations anyhow.

It's a decent lid. I've already got two and I feel the price is reasonable. Here's the FB Mkt Place ad. If someone get's it, post it here.  

Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me understand this unusual thing. The only information I can find about it anywhere on the internet is this translation in German from this weapons book. I understand it's a gas / flare button but don't understand why they're so little information on it not even another picture anywhere.... (at least that I can find). Does anyone else own one? if so have you fired it?.....thanks

Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me understand this unusual thing. The only information I can find about it anywhere on the internet is this translation in German from this weapons book. I understand it's a gas / flair button but don't understand why they're so little information on it not even another picture anywhere.... (at least that I can find). Does anyone else own one? if so have you fired it?.....thanks

Our good friend and volunteer "Doc" died suddenly on August 5th. His fiance arrived this evening to arrange for the final shipment of her household goods, and brought Doc's Fedayeen helmet to give us. Every now and then, he'd good naturedly taunt me with pictures of it. Upon his death, the manager of his estate set it aside to be sold, but was unsuccessful. I didn't ask the price, but Beth purchased it, because she knew Doc would've wanted me to have it. Of course, I'm excited to have it, but I'd much rather still have Doc ribbing me about it. We all shed more than a few tears. Doc originally started his military career as a Navy Corpsman (hence his nickname) and eventually switched to the Air Force Reserves (Security Forces), retiring last year as a Master Sergeant. He'd done TEN deployments during the GWOT.  He had a photo on his phone of a tunnel in Iraq with these helmets laying around, so I might ask for a copy of that somewhere down the road.  As is common, the ziggy-zaggy has been popped off.

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Agree, the flower much smaller than original Somthing off on size or proportions    It is the popular fake on original helmets for sale!   Thanks Shemp

I think it's bad Mike

Hi Shemp, I ran across this emblem. It looks original. Your thoughts? 

If you run across one could you give me a heads-up? I'll keep an eye out - thank you

Nope. I guess I’ll go with “circa 1980s” until someone proves me wrong.