Original U.S. WWII Battle of the Bulge Battlefield Pickup Relic Lot: Battle-Damaged Fixed Bale Front Seam M1 Helmet Shell, Canteen Cup & Utensils - Inert U.S. Uniforms it was originally painted with

it was originally painted with early Apfelgrün (apple green) paint

sadly very few survived the war

referred to colloquially as the Mutterehrenkreuz (Mother’s Cross of Honor) or simply Mutterkreuz (Mother’s Cross)

complete with an original bayonet

but this just adds to the great look

Original U.S. WWII Battle of the Bulge Battlefield Pickup Relic Lot: Battle-Damaged Fixed Bale Front Seam M1 Helmet Shell, Canteen Cup & Utensils - Inert U.S. Uniforms it was originally painted withOriginal Items: Only Ones Available. This is a great lot of Battlefield Pickup Relics Recovered from the site of the Battle of the Bulge. The items were procured by an amateur historian while accompanying a veterans organization on a tour of the battlefield. We were told these items came from the site, but we have no paperwork or provenance to back this up. All of the ordnance in this set has been demilitarized according to specifications by the BATF,