THE HELMET THREAD

Ed, very cool ACH bargain price too

Over here they generally go for at least £100++, unless of course I get lucky and get a bargain too

I live right by a pretty big Army base , so stuff like this is all over , sometimes very cheap.

parafal wrote:I live right by a pretty big Army base , so stuff like this is all over , sometimes very cheap.

Cool nice one Ed, same here except it's all Brit stuff

my belgium jigsaw camo covered schuberth b826 composite

Rokkin! I had no idea that jigsaw persisted into recent use. Mine is from '58. Looks about the same (though I am sure that there are subtle differences).

hi sh4pak your 58 issue sounds like the 1st jigsaw pattern ,the 2nd came out at the end of the 1980's and the 3rd pattern came out in the late 1990's my cover is dated 1994 cheers james

Thanks, James. I know that I *could* have looked all of that up, but your short & sweet version is much-appreciated. =]

hi sh4pak any pics of your 58 jigsaw would be great to see just to compare old and new thanks james

James,

I'm sorry for not specifying that I was *just* talking about the pattern, and not covers, necessarily. I'm guessing that the cut on the older helmet covers was entirely different, and I cannot supply you with photos of that-- *but*-- here's the pattern on a pair of trousers:




I apologize for deviating from the context of the thread-- but I do hope that this helps.

--D.

Anybody got any ideas on this 826 please as a little confused going off the Gostak website as they claim it is German but the bolt heads are Danish??

great stuff sh4pak and thanks for spending the time to take these pics as you say the 58 pattern has differed little in all those years im sure the mods wont mind a slight deviation just to show the jigsaw variations here my belgium m71 with what i believe to be the 2nd pattern jigsaw camo cover ive already posted this pic on this here thread a while back but for referance is showing it again thanks again james

hi gulf this 826 is a puzzler it looks to be for german army but with belgium liner rivits perhaps somebody on here can enlighten us both

jaycee wrote:hi gulf this 826 is a puzzler it looks to be for german army but with belgium liner rivits perhaps somebody on here can enlighten us both

Cheers James,yep,im baffled as well as going by a couple of websites it has various bits/characteristics of different countries.

It appears to be in Unissued condition.

Dr. Gulf; I think there are no differences between German or Danish issued Schubert helmets from the early to mid 90's.

The 826's were issued to the Danes in relatively limited quantaties and to meet a very specific need (the peacekeeping UN missions in the Balkans), before the Danes went with MSA Gallet helmets from 1996.
So it would have been a relatively unmodified 826 that the Danish MoD decided on from the German contractor; my blue-sprayed Danish helmet from 94' has nothing but German marks like yours.

Hope this helped in any way...

heres my bundeswehr helmets display enjoy james

my latest aquisition a bundesheer m1975 m1 clone dated 1981

At last managed to get one of these covers. No label or markings at all and note seam only running down one side of the cover.

very nice and very unusual saudi cover nice find gulf

jaycee wrote:very nice and very unusual saudi cover nice find gulf

Thanks James,wasnt sure if Saudi or early 80s US maybe??

Apologies if I have already posted these up before-Australian M1 Helmet.

Rich that's another variation of the Choc Chip "Saudi covers" I have not seen before, I have a few of these covers stashed away for prosperity now.

And of course the million dollar question...does it have any stamps / markings etc

Easy Gee wrote:Rich that's another variation of the Choc Chip "Saudi covers" I have not seen before, I have a few of these covers stashed away for prosperity now.

And of course the million dollar question...does it have any stamps / markings etc

You have a couple already??

Nowt Gary in the way of traces of labels/stamps unfortunately.

Gulf91 wrote:

Easy Gee wrote:Rich that's another variation of the Choc Chip "Saudi covers" I have not seen before, I have a few of these covers stashed away for prosperity now.

And of course the million dollar question...does it have any stamps / markings etc

You have a couple already??

Nowt Gary in the way of traces of labels/stamps unfortunately.

Hi Rich,Yes I have two, and traded two off.

I did not think there were any stamps or marks ,as I guessed you would have shown them already, I am beginning to think there are not any versions out there with markings.

The mystique of these continues?????

my A vehicle crewman helmet

Love the crewman lid James,the Blues and Royals most famously wore these in the Falklands

Not having much luck with these covers at the moment,Jigsaw is nice and unissued but no label,Tropentarn(came from the US) has the A stamp bleeding through and while its an Issue cover,why the hell is the STURM stamp on it??