Helmet is a Model 1935 beaded Police helmet with a black painted body attached air vents on either side of the crown. Paint is good throughout with minor scattered white paint droplets that are very tiny.

The left side has the black Police decal with the silver eagle within a wreath. The right side has the swastika flag decal with bold orange background and sharp corners with black border. Decals are 98% present.

Liner is light brown with ten tongues tied together by string. The back skirt of the helmet is stamped with 24173 while the left skirt is faintly marked EF56. The letters “EF” stand for the Emaillerwerke in Fulda. Helmet only has half of the chinstrap.

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.  [ad]

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