It would appear that the current way to turn a few bob is to buy up cheap unmarked Zuckerman helmets and then apply lettering of a firm (see previous examples for the WVS and Avro Aircraft). This garbage comes from a regular shyster on eBay known for hawking all sorts of faked militaria. I expect we'll see quite a lot of these helmets in the future.
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Coming from the same shed as the previously blogged Avro Aircraft Zuckerman helmet, is this WVS Mobile Canteen No. 4 example. The seller is notorious amongst collectors for fabricating all sorts of militaria. This is another recently lettered Zuckerman with distressing added to give a whiff of authenticity. At time of writing, bids on the tat bazaar had driven the price to £156. A waste of money and the seller is an utter disgrace.
Here's a beauty, an Avro Aircraft Zuckerman from another well-known faker of militaria. This helmet is currently on the tat bazaar and may well catch out a few peeps. It's had quite a lot of fake work done on it to age the modern water slide transfer. Unfortunately, the fakers didn't do their homework as the Avro Heritage Museum has a page that explains the company never used "AVRO AIRCRAFT" on any company signage in the UK...
An interesting Head Warden helmet is coming up for sale at Bosleys Military Auctioneers soon. A white helmet with two black bands is usually issued to a Chief Warden (and their deputies) so it's unusual to see one marked as a Head Warden. It looks legit but with so much funny business going on in the Home Front collectibles market you never quite know unless you can see and handle items like this.
I initially thought the S.W. was for Shelter Warden but as the chap also has two rank bars (making him an Officer in the senior ranking system) and a white helmet I think it may well be Senior Warden in this case. Send a comment if you have any thoughts on the photo.
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