M35 Waffen-SS double decal reissued to Polizei steel helmet named to SS-Rottenführer Q66

Description

From my personal collection. M35 steel helmet started as a double decal Waffen-SS example having a Quist-pattern SS decal on the right side and a swastika decal on the left. The person wearing this helmet must have been transfered to the Police later during the war, so they applied a police decal on top of the SS decal. So actually the police decal is now on the ‘wrong side’. The inside of the helmet still shows a name of a SS-Rottenführer. The helmet is complete with its original installed aluminum liner, dated 1939. Note one of the D-rings for the chin strap is missing. Helmet markings Q66, lotnumber 210?. A very nice and uncommon helmet!