SS DIRLEWANGER ATTRIBUTED M42 HELMET

Non runic M42 but directly attributed to SS Dirlewanger. This helmet was found last year in a small village near Warsaw and sold to a friend of mine.
Under the front peak is scratched the Feldpost number 00512. This was used exclusively by Dirlewanger and nobody else. It was forum posted and got a 100% thumbs up.
The helmet itself is in typical barn found condition with good shell retaining most of it's paint, dry liner and original but broken and dry chinstrap with a period field repair.Decent size approx 64 shell, apron markings indistinct.
Rare to find a real piece to this notorious unit.

00512
(15.9.1940-31.1.1941) SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger d. Waffen-SS Distrikt Lublin
(1.8.1943-23.3.1944) 17.9.1943 Regimentsstab und Stabskompanie SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger
(24.3.1944-6.11.1944) 29.6.1944 Stab und Stabskompanie SS-Sonder-Regiment Dirlewanger
8.9.1944: Stab und 1.-5. Kompanie SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger
(7.11.1944-Kriegsende) 19.12.1944 Stab SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger

Only ever used by Dirlewanger

Code: 53819