My Military Helmet Collection 

Great collection. I love that WW2 U.S. Helmet. The liner is WW2 for sure. Looks like the sweatband is a repro also. Love the WW1 U.S. helmets also. I have 89 helmets in my collection as of now. I have about 12 that I am going to sell.. I am starting to get picky about what I buy/ want to keep in my collection. I have added more shelves and moved a lot around on my display wall. I am going to make an updated video in the near future. Thanks for sharing.

I think you beat me in that eBay bid for the M1 !!!!!

That is a mighty collection you have there! Very nice helmets. I can completely sympathize with wanting military gear from your contry(ies) of heritage, I like to get things from Germany and Poland.

Attention! Also the irish army used a german style helmet made in Great Brittain in late 20s to early 40s. As civilian protection helmet up to 60s.

The m42 relic I think why the holes is different apart is beacause of the manufactor and it's a m42 towards the end of the war the germans was in a hurry to produce helmets so they weren't precise when they made them.

Very nice collection. For your information regarding the British "Tommy" helmet, It DOES have the edge covered! I just checked my Dads helmet dated 1940 and his has the edging on. It is also fitted with the normal cruciform black rubber "bump stop" where the screw comes through the crown of the shell to protect the wearers head along with the normal oilcloth liner system. I hope this helps you sometime in the future, you may even get to buy a similar helmet. Thanks Dave UK

Nice collection

awesome Collection of Helmets

Wow, great collection mate 👍thanks for posting 🙏

The reason why your relic M42 has uneven distances between te vents and rivet holes is probably because at the end of the war they started to make the M42 Stahlhelms a little bit more sloppy and rushed so you would see factory defects pop up. I'm not 100% sure if that is the case but I'm pretty sure of it.

The shape of the Swiss helmet always makes me cringe lol, nice collection tho.

The german helmet with the holes that are uneven is most likely just a production error when they were trying to rush them out

I have a reproduction Brodie Mk2 helmet, the one used in WWII by the British (pictured in my profile picture) and it costed me $99.99 at Smith and Edwards near Ogden, Utah while out there visiting family.

I own a post ww2 era East German paratrooper helmet

I think the reason your m42 stallhelm is so strange is because it is late war/last ditch

Nice helmet collection. The Afrika Corps pit helmet was a nice find!

Nice modest collection, my own somewhat mirrors yours... I have a couple of Belgian like the two in your upper row. My WW2 Adrain is missing the lionhead though. I have 4 German -1 is a1916 Stalheim, 2 are M42 and a Luftschutz.. A British Tropical Pith, a MK 4 & Mk3 and a pair of US Brodies'& two WW2 US on is front seam the other later war. A WW2 Italian & a desert storm Kelvar given me by the Master Sargent who's it was.

I think us liner is early war but sweat band reproduction or 70’s I’m pretty sure. Great video!☺️

I also have a small military helmet collection. Not anyway near yours. Well done. Interesting.

Ss a belgian I'm very happy to see that there's people out there that have an interest in my country's military!

Great collection, and the love for the itemscomeds through very strongly! Only collectors will get it.. At the age of 52 I am returning to my old love of helmets, with a bit more cash my disposal now. Guys, save, buy, sell, trade up, and get the ones you want and will cherish - we are all dead soon! (my wife hates it when I laugh and say that, but think of the dinosaurs:-))

The German one is finish made, if it we're actually German it would have a size and serial number engraving

9:00 seems a lot of old war material ends up getting used for the strangest stuff. Read an article on a China man who was using a potato masher grenade to, well, mash potatoes for several decades before someone told him what it was.

Nice group of helmets you got there.

At the end of the war the German were giving bad quality helmets to the troops that’s why your m42 has the problem with the vent holes

The American 1917 part of the liner that looks like netting was this that. Recycled netting from boiled pot roast.

Great video nice helms!

4:50 i can confirm that's 100% correct !!

The British ones were welded, the Americans had both the rivers and the split pin

Do You know that the m1917 has asbestos in the liner

Great collection.

French helmet, looks like a construction hard hat. Nice collection. I had an american WW2 helmet, I found in Greece. But my father wouldn't let me take on plane. Lol. I was 15

Very nice video. I especially like that German Afrika Korps helmet it was in aamazong condition especially for that price. Only comment is just for your information, the heer and the Wehrmacht are not the same. Wehrmacht is the german military conprised the Luftwaffe, heer, and kriegsmarine. So the heer is the army and Wehrmacht is military. Anyways awesome video!

I also own a M42 ww2 German helmet.

Wow really nice collection I just started my obsession with wwii helmets haha I only have 4

Tell me, was the Belgian M 1 helmet made in Belgium or were American original helmets used? Did the Belgian M 1 differ from the American M 1? I purchased a helmet similar to the first one in your video. I thought it was West German, but in your video it’s called Belgian. It also has dents. But inside it is inserted a plastic green helmet, which has leather on the edges in the form of petals (like the German M 40), with a stamp on the skin "SO ?? O (U?) GA 96". On the steel helmet, the seam at the bottom is located at the back. There are digits "76/1" inside the back. (Translated using Google translator).

I have a Belgium m1 helmet to!

Please make a video on the Belgium m1 helmet vs American / for reenactments

I don't think any liners after ww2 had kahki webbing so it's most likely is a ww2 liner.

French Colonial Troops had Tan colored Adrian Helmets.

Your m16 transitional helmet is size 64 or less, I have a similar one, same paint etc. It seems to be a semi restored helmet. I believe if you strip the paint off you will find putty, or maybe not. But the black paint was not original and was added on post war.

I own an US M1 Helmet.

Nice collection just got my first adrian helmet its a French M26 with an original chinstrap but no liner

500 buck for that helmet it's incredible price thanks for saying where you got the helmets help me out :)

Nice helmet collection!!!!

Nicee collection 👍😍

3:11 the darth Vader helmet was real, it was an Iraqi helmet from desert storm

So around how much did all of this cost

Great vid

Hey I’ve been thinking about buying an old ww1 French m15 helmet off eBay think I should do it?

I want cheap real german helmet where do I find one

I won a M1 Us Vietnam War helmet on ebay from bidding it was 25 bucks 😁

So the IMA.USA German helmet isn't from ww2

You got scammed, I live in Belgium and the M1 belgian helmet are sold 10$ ( € ) fully completed ( shell, chinstrap and liner) :/

Wow, very nice! I’m a young collector, just got into the hobby a few months ago, (about 6) and have managed to score three helmets, only two are from WWII though, I’m looking to get my hands on an original M1 American, and a WW2 Brodie, do you have any idea how much is they normally go for, if you could inform me, that would be awesome, thanks!

I am starting my collection of ww2 helmets.

Good condition one

Believe me or don’t believe me I found a real German helmet with the decal and liner and everything (at lest I think) for only 125 dollars and there were other ones but they were repros

if you need helmets from germany.. just ask for it :-)

I need some advise so I just started my collect and so far I have a wz 67 a para beret and a standard issue is military uniform and I want to get another helmet any tips?

I like helmets too

The german one is a replica

I have a small collection of ww2 and ww1 helments

Can you compare the Finnish Helmet to an OG?

I have tre m1 helmet

Where do you get your helmets?

Excellent Collection. Lots of people I know are reluctant to show off their helmets for fear of being offensive to Jewish people in the case of WW2 German helmets. Personally I don't agree with this unless you were exhibiting an obsession for SS material which I think would offend anyone.

That was a Finish made helmet