WW2 British HSAT Fibre Rim Airborne Steel Helmet 1942

Rare top shelf & textbook example of the HSAT Fibre Rim Airborne steel helmet & the best example I have seen for quite some time.
There can be no doubt the British Airborne forces forged an incredible place in world Military history from there exploits from the dark days of WW2 to the present day .This particular item of headdress very much represents an early and very important stage in this units amazing history . The Helmet Steel Airborne Troops or HSAT was one of the early stages in British Airborne headgear . The helmet was perhaps the first mass produced Airborne helmet and replaced the "P" type helmet . The "P" Type was semi prototype/experimental helmet of very limited production with only a small handful exsisting today ! The HSAT was the very next stage and can only be found dated 1942 , this type of helmet thus saw combat from North Africa through to Normandy and beyond to Arnhem and the Rhine crossing . This example is textbook in all features having the short lived "Fibre" rim to specific outwardly curved un finish steel lower lip . The factory khaki paint work is excellent with a wonderful been there patina . The Chinstraps are the rare stitched format leather type in a thick black vegetable chromed leather & characteristic deep green/black hue .There is a gentle verdigris to brass hardware with all screws/bolts being clearly undisturbed . The liner is only lightly worn with a very clear 'BMB 1942' date . Pads are of the classic WW2 only expediant black tar covered felt material ,this due to the shortage of Sorbo rubber after the fall of the Far East . On looking inside the crown there is the characteristic spot/blob of yellow ochre paint only seen in Airborne versions of this type shell . As an iconic untouched and textbook example this one would be very hard to better . A far far harder helmet to find than the German Paratrooper helmet !

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