RememberThe5thESB Posted September 17, 2018 Share #1 Posted September 17, 2018 I thought this might be interesting to post up here. No particular reason really, just for fun! I personally have paid 16 dollars for a post war 1950s McCord. And before that my cheapest purchase would have to be a WW2 rear seam schlueter shell, rusty and beat up but it retained much of the original paint and cork. But as a rookie mistake I decided to repaint it and strip it of the old stuff. Only paid 18 for it. I'd love to hear from others on their cheapest finds! Sent from my SM-J327V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodes Posted September 17, 2018 Share #2 Posted September 17, 2018 I've got a minty fixed bail Schlueter with low pressure liner that was a freebie....Bodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted September 17, 2018 Share #3 Posted September 17, 2018 About 30+ years ago, I paid $5.00 for a Viet Nam era M1 with liner at a long gone surplus store. The place had 7 or 8 cardboard 55 gal barrels filled with M1s. At the time I had no idea what front or rear seam or fixed or swivel bails meant. The place closed long before I got edumacated here at USMF. Sometimes I cry when I think about what may have been in those barrels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbmilitaria Posted September 17, 2018 Share #4 Posted September 17, 2018 $20 for a nice, named fixed loop with a hawley liner at an auction. Not something that happens everyday and it was probably 15 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant G. Posted September 17, 2018 Share #5 Posted September 17, 2018 I witnessed two original Inland paratrooper liners sell for $45, only for the winning bidder to not pay. I'm not complaining though, it gave me the opportunity to buy them for $300. I featured them in this article: https://www.wwiihelmetsbycirca1941.com/library/how-to-buy-wwii-helmets-on-ebay-while-on-a-budget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted September 17, 2018 Share #6 Posted September 17, 2018 $2 for a wwii airborne liner in 1997, $9 for a front seam, fixed loop in about 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDermut99 Posted September 17, 2018 Share #7 Posted September 17, 2018 I only have one pot, a RS/SB McCord late to post-war that I paid no more than $15. It was missing almost all of its paint and corking, but only had a couple small dings. I repainted and recorked it, put on some J. Murray chinstraps, and use it as my reenactment helmet. My dad however was far luckier. The H.S. theater department was cleaning out their inventory and he saw a M1 pot hiding among the junk. It was a FS/FB Schlueter with original paint and cork, and not a dent on it. He walked out with it without spending a dime (he taught at the school). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_the_hun84 Posted September 17, 2018 Share #8 Posted September 17, 2018 $45 for a named 10th Mtn FS/FB with Imp liner. Bought it back when I was a sprat when I started in 1994. Was at a local antiques store that had a "military" room. Had the mans serial number on the chinstrap and came back to a guy in the 86th Mtn Infantry- but didn't find that out until 10 years later- was thinking of selling it and figured I would research it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38Driver Posted September 17, 2018 Share #9 Posted September 17, 2018 Dad’s didn’t cost me anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted September 17, 2018 Share #10 Posted September 17, 2018 $1. Twice in the same day. No liners and beat up, but WWII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-59A Posted September 17, 2018 Share #11 Posted September 17, 2018 I paid $20.00 each for four Westinghouse factory M1C liners with pots from a surplus store about ten years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airborne-Hunter Posted September 17, 2018 Share #12 Posted September 17, 2018 Friend of mine got a coast guard FS FB w/ Hawley for $2 in 2012. Another friend picked up a FS SB w/ westy liner for $10 a week ago. I got a nice FS FB complete with westy for $40 over the summer. I got a four panel Korean War Medic helmet five years ago for $45, a Korea war navy corpsman for $55 this summer. Another friend got a FS FB navy helmet for $20 earlier late last year. Pulled an 85th painted liner fix bail off ebay about 10 years ago for $80 too described wrong and in the wrong section.Lots of stuff to be found out there! Best ABN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Marine Posted September 18, 2018 Share #13 Posted September 18, 2018 2 of mine came from dumpsters in the 60s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray175INF Posted September 18, 2018 Share #14 Posted September 18, 2018 A close friend of mine was a Korean and Vietnam war vet, started out enlisted as a mechanic. Went airborne after he got tired of filling differential cases with oatmeal eventually retired as a major. He gave me a very early fixed loop, an m3 flak helmet painted with the 3rd recon, 3rd armored insignia on the front, an early inland liner with captain insignia and other assorted items. I'd give the stuff back if I could have one more day to hang out with the man. $25 for a fixed loop named to a Peleliu vet. $15 for a rayon westinghouse. The fixed loop was found couple years ago, I found the liner this past May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6th.MG.BN Posted September 18, 2018 Share #15 Posted September 18, 2018 About 2 or 3 years ago I paid $50.00 for a Korean war pot with an untouched WWII Inland Para liner in it. About 18 years ago I picked up an experimental Hawley liner off ebay. The good days of ebay. Back when they ran the old Lowell, Mass. show there was an older man who would bring a table full of WWII helmets each show,. $20.00 ea. Fixed and flex bail and an occasional para. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodes Posted September 18, 2018 Share #16 Posted September 18, 2018 About 2 or 3 years ago I paid $50.00 for a Korean war pot with an untouched WWII Inland Para liner in it. About 18 years ago I picked up an experimental Hawley liner off ebay. The good days of ebay. Back when they ran the old Lowell, Mass. show there was an older man who would bring a table full of WWII helmets each show,. $20.00 ea. Fixed and flex bail and an occasional para. Ken If we're including liners, I picked up a Hawley liner w/chinstrap and sweatband at an antique store about three years ago for $20.....Couldn't get the money out quick enough....Bodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aef1917 Posted September 18, 2018 Share #17 Posted September 18, 2018 I used to buy them for a buck apiece back in the 80s, but my dad's got me beat by a long shot. He got a 6'x4' crate of them for free when one of the local Navy Reserve stations shut down, and that was years before he got an invasion stripe WWII Navy helmet at a yard sale for a buck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant G. Posted September 18, 2018 Share #18 Posted September 18, 2018 About 2 or 3 years ago I paid $50.00 for a Korean war pot with an untouched WWII Inland Para liner in it. About 18 years ago I picked up an experimental Hawley liner off ebay. The good days of ebay. Back when they ran the old Lowell, Mass. show there was an older man who would bring a table full of WWII helmets each show,. $20.00 ea. Fixed and flex bail and an occasional para. Ken Ken, do you still have the experimental Hawley? Would love to see some photos of it!-Grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted September 18, 2018 Share #19 Posted September 18, 2018 Not an M1... But my first piece of militaria was a WWI Doughboy helmet. Belonged to a local man. I saw it at 10 years of age, knew it was special,and my old grandpa ran the box lot it was in up to $11.00, with my grandma discouraging such an expense of money! Not sure why he did it. He collected a lot of other old things, himself, so maybe he saw something in me. This was about 1990. Around 2006 I figured out why it had no rim... And it was magnetic as well... Only wish I had the sense at 10 years of age to get the guy's name! So my original rimless Brodie was $11 to make a short story long! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted September 18, 2018 Share #20 Posted September 18, 2018 I paid $20 for this rusty front seam, fixed bail. After some careful rust removal it looked like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted September 18, 2018 Share #21 Posted September 18, 2018 Less than $20 bucks for this black painted beauty. Came w/ a Vietnam era liner. But twice or even 4X what I paid for even nicer lids in the deep dark past Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airborneguy44 Posted September 18, 2018 Share #22 Posted September 18, 2018 $10 for a RS SB Schleuter w/ original OD7 chinstraps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugme Posted September 18, 2018 Share #23 Posted September 18, 2018 Free WWII A/B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottG Posted September 18, 2018 Share #24 Posted September 18, 2018 I got paid monthly to wear a FS/Swivel from 1986-88. I then brought it home when we switched to Kevlar and I still own it. As a kid, I would go to the surplus store in Detroit and find WWII helmets in large bins for $3.00 with the liners. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted September 18, 2018 Share #25 Posted September 18, 2018 I found a complete Vietnam era M1 w/ camo cover in mint condition at the flea market for $10 WW2 fixed bail for $8.00 at the swap meet WW2 white MP helmet for $25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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