GERMAN WWI M.17 LARGE SIZE CAMOUFLAGE TRENCH HELMET.

The largest size produced, very impressive looking helmet, marked ‘TS68’. This M.17 helmet having a very unusual camouflage of 8 small circles of dark ochre, surrounded by black lines, three small portions of green with the remainder of the skull in an applied brown. To the interior the helmet has its M.17 steel liner band with its three white leather inner pads, all of the pads have lost their horsehair padding, the tip of one pad missing and complete with the remains of a chinstrap. Faint traces of an owner’s name hand applied to the inner rear skirt. A highly unusual helmet.

Code: 79127