Helmet is the Model 1940 with a rolled edge and impressed air vents.

Helmet is painted a dark gray color. The left side has the Luftwaffe decal of which 75% remains with scraping on the eagle’s body leaving the swastika mostly intact. Exterior paint shows heavy wear from age, use and storage. All three liner rivets are present. Right rear of skirt has minor drips of white paint in an area approx. 1.25 x 1.50 inches.

The interior of the helmet has paint that matches the exterior in color with moderate surface oxidation around the edges. The leather liner was originally light brown but has darkened from age. The crown of the liner has eight tongues and is still tied with a piece of rawhide. Chinstrap keepers show light rust. Chinstrap is missing. Faint initials and a number can be seen on the liner.

The inside back of the skirt is stamped with “12230.” There is no marking visible in the crown.

The left side of the skirt is stamped “hkp64” which shows the helmet was manufactured by Sächsische emailler und stanzwerke A.G.  (Saxon Enameling and Stamping.) and is a size 64 centimeters or a US size 8.

Item is from the collection of the late Ron Tunison.

Ron Tunison (1947 – 2013) was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y., and was a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was a scholarship student at the NYC National Academy where he continued his sculpting studies. He went on to become an internationally acclaimed sculptor of nine heroic bronze monuments: "General W. Crawford," near Little Round Top on the Gettysburg Battlefield, the “Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial" on Steinwehr Ave., the bas-relief "Delaware State Memorial" on Taneytown Road, and "The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial" at Evergreen Cemetery. On the Antietam National Battlefield is Tunison's "Irish Brigade Monument." "The Bivouac" is at the entrance to the Civil War Soldier's Museum at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Va. "The Delaware Continentals" heroic size bronze of three advancing Revolutionary War soldiers stands atop a twenty-five foot granite pedestal in front of Legislative Hall at Dover, Delaware. At Ringgold Gap in Atlanta, Ga., is Ron's life-size General Patrick Cleburne. Dedication ceremonies for “General John Barry, U.S. Naval Commander”, took place May 10th, 2014 at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.  Ron was the entrepreneur behind his own company Historical Sculptures, where he sculpted smaller statues.

Very nice piece of trench art from the Great War.

A good example of a World War Two German helmet.  [ad]

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