Austria-Hungary, Empire. An M17 Stahlhelm, with Bleckmann Mill Mark Hold and an NCO’s wreath

and an NCO’s wreath

dated to Berlin on March 1938

on April 8

A band of raised oak leaves transitions into a ribbed pumpkin-coloured celluloid handle with ten rows of twisted silvered wrap in the recessed of the ribbed grip without interruption

with Ellet being transferred to the 58th Infantry Battalion in the field

Austria-Hungary, Empire. An M17 Stahlhelm, with Bleckmann Mill Mark Hold and an NCO’s wreath(sterreichischer Stahlhelm M17). An extremely well preserved Austro Hungarian M17 Stahlhelm (steel helmet), constructed of a single sheet of magnetic molybdenum steel which retains the vast majority of its original olive drab brown Isonzo braun paint. Five domed rivets are distributed around the outer circumference for the accommodation of the interior fixtures, while the crown is also flanked by protruding lugs for the accommodation of a Stirnpanzer,