This is so useful and well set out to follow. Preserving history is so important and particularly items like these which may have been not so well treated in the past. keep the videos coming they are wonderful

So no leather oils to keep the leather soft ?

I just bought an m35 lufthansa helment doublD and will be using all this info! Thanks!

Excellent explanations! congratulations! There are many fake German helmets, I bought one myself!

Please keep posting! Great video and very informative. I've been helmet curious for over 40 years but just now getting into doing some research and collecting as I have the time and resources.

Can you please let me know where to find some ww2 german helmets please. I had mine sold behind my back when I was deployed overseas. Thanks

When you show some helmits in your collection off with music in the background which one is with the eagle at the front with a rolled bead above rim and multiple small vent holes punched through called? My father found one overseas and handed it down to me upon his passing. I haven't been able to locate the type and you happen to have one

And finally some tells the story right about the ear cutout Thank you

It’s not model 1896 but model 1915 pickelhauben nonetheless a nice helmet

Great presentation bud! Can you possibly give me any ideas on where I should look for legit ww2 german helmets please. I am in the northeast and getting back into this after a hiatus.

Love your videos and the knowledge you share. My interest in this hobby began in the 1970s and I am only now returning to it after a long hiatus. Please keep posting and sharing!

The best conservation is to simply leave it alone! While your work looks great, it greatly destroys the value of the helmet

The Ford Model 8 Experimental WW1 helmet at 1:52 literally made me drool. Amazing design and one of the rarest helmets out there. Where on earth did you find it, Mannie? Anyway, congrats on your fantastic collection and thank you for the awesome blog. It was a great read.

excellent collection! and that is a wonderful Adrian helmet! props to the French for being the first to issue steel helmets. germans took their time but the Stahlhelm is the best of the bunch. and the british Brodie, I guess is better than a felt cap lol .

WOW! what an incredible collection! i have a Prussian buckle, but no helmets yet. my goal is one from each of the major powers. after that maybe some from the 1871 war.

Did ball mason jar company make worid war 2 helmets

It’s nice to see you posting again. I started collecting at 15 just because I grew up seeing your collection and hoping to have as many helmets as you jajajajaja. Glad to see you are still making videos and beautiful helmets as always

Good concise video! All beginners should watch this. Nice collection there!!

In 50 years people will complain about Kevlar helmets being too expensive

Excellent video great job, thanks.

Sounds like Bob Ross restoring a German helmet 😂

When I was 8 years old I saved enough money to get me a Luftwaffe M42 with liner, no chin strap. This was around 1982. I bought it from a dealer at a guns and military show in Birmingham, AL…I remember I had $40, and the man lowered the price from $80 to $60, so my father pitched in $20 and helped me bring it home. I still have it. Overall very good condition, one decal on the left side. I will never sell it, but it is kind of funny when I tell people that I was into this stuff at such a young age. I’ve always been fascinated by it, especially WW1 and WW2.

Should you support leather liners that like to drop? I am looking at you Britan.

Thank you that was very interesting.

An interesting point with the vent/visor lugs is that they were standard regardless of helmet size as the visors were just one size. As a consequence, the smaller the helmet size, the more the lugs protrude. Re the Irish helmets I believe they were made in England by Vickers from 1927.

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Hi Mannie. If you made one video for each of the helmets that you have, you will became a youtuber with millions of views 😃. Thank you for your videos.

I love Spanish helmet... I love 250 Spanish division blue 🇪🇸👍

Awesome video Mannie! I also just watched your beginner's guide to WWII German Helmets and I loved it. With that said, I have what I believe to be an M35 or M40 in what would probably be considered relic condition. I got it as a kid maybe 15 years ago from a fanily friend without much background information on it. It has decals that I do believe are later additions. I struggle to identify and pinpoint whether the ventilation holes are of an M35 or M40 design. The chin strap bails looks more rectangular and edged as seen on the m35 in your other video. Would you happen to have an email or a resource where someone could post or send a few pictures that could help in identifying and possibly valuing such a piece? God bless!

i live in jersey, about 35 years ago, me and a friend went into one of the tunnel complexes we have and pulled out about a dozen rotten helmets, the good stuff had been taken years before... we managed to clean up and body fill and paint three of them, and dumped the rest. now, i wish i'd have kept even the bad ones !

As a lover for medieval war equipment I really love this piece. What u can clearly see on this model, is that it is looking like hybrid between a 14th - 15th century Pig-face bascinet and a sallet. Althought the model 8 is speciffically made against blows, shatters from firearm weapons. the wide opening around the neck of the model 8 tells you that the helmet would mainly be worn by soldiers in trenches (as you demonstrated in the video). It could also be purely a design for flexibility around the neck or for weight reduction. I love seeing how design choices can tell you all kinds of things!

That's great, ty so much for information. I have a question. do you have any information about Imperial Iranian army helmets? because They had M-62 western Germany helmets.

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Very much like to know more details about your displaying system for your helmets. Materials and hanging method.

Very informative thank you.

What about Ballistol on the leather? The Germans used it on their leather along with lubricating firearms.

Wow really great video! Looking forward to others

Great Collection Sir. Thank you to show us all this nice helmets. Habe a nice day, And greetings from Germany

This guy is awesome just found this channel after deciding I wanted to start collecting. Haven’t started yet but this is really helping me learn about what to look out for. Thank you sir

Thanx Mannie for the video!! always a pleasure watching them, and leaning something new, have a Merry Christmas!

Excellent collection you have here, I especially loved the Afghan cutout M18 and the Irish M1927, I've heard that the vent lugs were old German stock from the war, and when Vickers was making the helmets they just grabbed the lugs out of the pile randomly, even though there are different sizes of lugs for the different helmet sizes, so some of these helmets have lugs of 2 different sizes. I've also heard that the reason the helmet is so oddly shaped is because Vickers acquired the German dies and tools for making these helmets, as war reparations, but they used steel that was too thin and that's why it's not shaped properly. As the white paint is due to them being repainted for civil defense duties, have you considered carefully removing it to restore it to it's army configuration?

Very enlightening and informative video. Congrats Mannie. Greetings from Brazil.

very interesting video..i'm thinking about collecting helmets too.. I hope to learn more from you in your videos...greetings from Belgium

Very informative and entertaining at the same time! Thanks!

You know a video is well made when someone like me who is not collecting WWI helmets find it very interesting to watch. It's always a pleasure to watch a knowledgeable person speak regardless of the subject.

great video! and thanks for the book recommendation! Also is that a Spanish issued M35 helmet at the back?

Mannie! Please keep posting! I wish you made a video a week, or at least each month! I hope you are well ❤️

Hey, I’ve got a friend with a snow Camo helmet, which was found in the ground, but if he did this, wouldn’t it damage the Camo?

They need to bring these back in Kevlar.

Why wasn't it used more? It seems like a great helmet. Bot to mention it's really cool looking.