Sand texture on Rimless brodie helmet

[Anzac16]

Hi there all

I just got a new brodie helmet

Is a rimless with the D/F 30 in it so I think it’s from 1916

and with sand texture

but I was wondering

when did they start to use this texture?

i have 2 rimed helmets and they have this texture

But i thought that rimless doesn’t have this texture

[Guest redrum]

I have seen a museum held rimless brodie with a rough texture but a very dark green colour. I previously assumed these were a bluish colour and even un-painted until then. So with the thousands produced some must have been sand coloured and possibly even done at the front.

[harribobs]

redrum

the sand finish was a texture rather than a colour, done with the intention of making the helmets less reflective, later a more effective method was to cover the helmet with hessian

I'm afraid i don't know whether the early rimless helmets were re-treated with the sand finish

chris

[Anzac16]

Thankx

but i will make a good picture of the structure

may that will help

[Anzac16]

here some closeup's

[Anzac16]

maybe they did it on the front

[Guest redrum]

The dark green helmet I have seen had this same roughened surface.I would guess yours was modified in the front-line to match the terrain. I have read of troops who over painted their helmets in a khaki drab - some were made to clean it off again by the sergeant. ( purposely damaging government property! )

[Joe Sweeney]

Anzac16,

All Helmets manufactured after a GHQ decision on 11 April 1916 were to be painted with Sand.

A good percentage of rimless helmets would have been painted without the sand finish although the tail end production would have.

Not uncommon for rimless helmets to be repainted at depot w/sand finish--this would have been very much rougher than afactory applied finish

Joe Sweeney

[Anzac16]

many thankx for you replay's

thank you all