GERMAN WWII COMBAT HELMET WITH COVER.

A superb relic of WWII being an M42 combat helmet with what appears to be a field made cover, virtually identical in construction to the field made First World War German helmet covers. This example has three major panels stitched together with four intervening stitch lines to draw the cover into the shape of a helmet. It would appear that the material, which is a plain canvas, not camouflaged, has been utilised from another garment as there is another double seam in part of the construction of the cover, this can be observed on the frontal views of the helmet and cover. It has been adhered to this helmet since WWII, the rust flooding can clearly be seen on the dome area and the stress on the cover where it has butted to the sharp rim of the 42 pattern helmet over the past 80 years has led to some degrading of the material in those areas. It has its original drawstring, by lifting the cover very carefully away from the edge to avoid any further damage to the edge it can be observed that this is a non decaled helmet below. Standard M40 leather liner with zinc band, the leather is shrivelled in places, two of the tongues are missing but the original drawstring is present with its original leather chinstrap. With research many thousands of images can be seen of soldiers in the field with their own homemade helmet covers, this is an example of such. A fabulous battlefield relic.

Code: 90622