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Civil Defense Helmet ID please.


Norrie

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Hiya, Bought this through the week at a local auction house...and  cant ID the lettering..the consensus from @Fred Karno's Army and @Bil4338 is that its probobly a factory fire watchers helmet......any ideas or thoughts ?...it also has some insignia on the side...with the same lettering.plus it has a little white diamond painted on the rear rim...it has a similar triangle scratched into the underneath of the rim....:)

Liner is a Brtish Motor Bodies one, in size 7 dated 1938, helmet is F98/1938 or 9...hard to make out. 

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Hmmm, a Star of David scratched into the inner rim...maybe a Jewish member of the warden or factory staff? Israeli civil defence postwar? The yellow bars could denote a rank or position.

guess we'll never know...

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Looking at it @Norrie are those 'stripes' just not rust marks where it's had something resting on it,or been on something that's just rusted like that ?.

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16 hours ago, Bil4338 said:

Hmmm, a Star of David scratched into the inner rim...maybe a Jewish member of the warden or factory staff? Israeli civil defence postwar? The yellow bars could denote a rank or position.

guess we'll never know...

Wondered all those things as well......still...something for the future if info comes along...:)

16 hours ago, Fred Karno's Army said:

Looking at it @Norrie are those 'stripes' just not rust marks where it's had something resting on it,or been on something that's just rusted like that ?.

Nope, def paint of some sort, you can make out the SGF letters at the end of the "stripes" too...:)

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