charlie

Hi Again sorry to come back in again but dougB really knocked me out he is the biggest W----R I have ever heard on these sights and YES I HAPEND TO HAVE THAT HELMET the most valiable helmet in the world,nobody can have what I have.What a tosher.

Hi You dont like the party decal see page 84 KELLY HICKS SS STEEL for same decal,or has kelly hicks got it wrong.charlie

Hi Sorry to say that the other sight that said this was a fake are a bunch of no nothing johny come latelys,the one that said the runes where to thin for a pocher is right,its not a pocher its an austrian decal,where do these people get there knowledge,.charlie

Hi No they didnt come from the same source and your helmet guy who has more helmets than the LAH is about to learn something,this black helmet is 100%,Everybody seems to think they know everything.Both these helmets are !00% right,I defy anybody to prove differently.Charlie

Hi Andy This helmet is black,issued black not painted at an ss depot,from the maker black,I have thoughts now weither the party shield is austrian or pocher,undesided.charlie

Hi Andy Another of my helmets,DD M40 Waffen SS,ET64 batch476,I have been collecting 45 years so I got these at a good price years ago.charlie

Hi Batch number is 703 0r 700,hard to see as painted over the top is SS and mans name,name rubbed out.Charlie

M40 black painted as issued DD SS helmet,one of only a handfull im told,et66,chinstrap stamped ss bw 00453,austrian decals.my camera is knackered so scan is all i can do at the moment.Janoshttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_04_2012/post-8400-0-55186900-1335355493.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_04_2012/post-8400-0-61739700-1335355547.jpg

Hi Matt I think this is what is missing.Regards Charlie.

My thanks to Mike and Chris for confirming my suspicions!

Matt

Hi Jacques How can you say the S&L droop tail eagles on my cross are ugly,I have only just joined this site and find a photo of my two S&L cross/s normal and droop tail displayed by Harrier.I dont mind them being displayed but it would have been polite to ask,I post photo of eagle.Regards Charlie .

Hi Harrier,

I can't believe these drop tail eagles crosses original. these eagles are particularly crude. look at the difference between your last two Steinhauer. the first, which I guess original has the typical Steinhauer eagle, the second has drop tail eagles; why Steinhauer should have made so ugly eagles at the middle to the end of the war instead of the previous ones ? you can see the soldering at the top of the wings on your second cross. I don't have it in hands, but could it be possible that fake eagles could have been soldered to an original base?

Concerning Doehle images, they are drawings and not pictures.

Except very few crosses, like the one you shown, all the drop tail eagles crosses shown typical fake construction (pin, hinge, hook, swords gips, etc..), this why I don't think they are war period, but much more post-war made. May be some were made very early after the war, using original base stocks, as souvenirs for GI's; and the others are 70's-80's fakes.

I've no proof, it is just deduction, logic, and feeling; so this statement only engage myself. I prefer to avoid these drop tail eagles crosses and I consider them as fakes or post-war made.

here is a picure shared by CHE, and it is one of the cross with diamonds I consider original.