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This Antique Relic of war is a Very Rare handpainted camouflage soldier's helmet. In impressive condition for age, it retains the original leather chin strap and the interior leather head Webbing. The colors are true to the patterns and shades their Army was allowed to use down to the finger-wide black lines. A true collector's piece. These first modern M16 helmets evolved into the M18 helmets by the end of WWI. The M16 and M18 helmets remained in usage through-out the Weimar Reichswehr era and on into the early years of the Third Reich until the development of the smaller, lighter M35 style helmet in June 1935. Of Note: In July 1918 Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army, Erich Ludendorff issued a directive which clearly laid out the camouflage colors and pattern that was to be applied to all helmets in the field. The directive also included the amounts of paint that 1,000 helmets would require as five kilograms, (11Lbs), each of, green, ochre yellow and rust brown, and two kilograms, (4.4 Lbs), of black paint.

Lot 219: Antique German Imperial Military M16 Hand Pained Camouflage Helmet

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This Antique Relic of war is a Very Rare handpainted camouflage soldier's helmet. In impressive condition for age, it retains the original leather chin strap and the interior leather head Webbing. The colors are true to the patterns and shades their Army was allowed to use down to the finger-wide black lines. A true collector's piece. These first modern M16 helmets evolved into the M18 helmets by the end of WWI. The M16 and M18 helmets remained in usage through-out the Weimar Reichswehr era and on into the early years of the Third Reich until the development of the smaller, lighter M35 style helmet in June 1935. Of Note: In July 1918 Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army, Erich Ludendorff issued a directive which clearly laid out the camouflage colors and pattern that was to be applied to all helmets in the field. The directive also included the amounts of paint that 1,000 helmets would require as five kilograms, (11Lbs), each of, green, ochre yellow and rust brown, and two kilograms, (4.4 Lbs), of black paint.

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