Old Football Helmet

[Maddog]

I agree. That is not vintage.
I think I have a good knowledge of football helmets & styles.
I have seen pretty much all styles & versions of leather football helmets and have never come across one exactly like this.
It does resemble in some was a few of the very early styles pre 1920 but the quality and condition is recent in my opinion. Looks like the leather hasn't even began to age yet.

I would suggest reaching out to Pasttime Sports- they do a LOT of recreations on the early helmets. You can also reach out to Helmet Hut for their idea's.

Charlie.

[Maddog]

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.6080...7&rs=1&pid=1.7

Sorry was actually thing of a different style helmet actually worn by Michigan in 1915. Similar except for the front.
The 8 spoke was used but sparingly and well before 1920. Here is an example of a 1910 version of the helmet. If this was indeed genuine (which I think not) it would command a nice price with vintage collectors. This particular style had a VERY short useful life span.

[pgellis]

Here's my spoke helmet from my collection:

[pgellis]

Another Photo:

[perezfan]

Here's mine.... a black Reach model.

[netennis]

I appreciate the information individuals have provided. I am providing additional pictures (front, back, and inside) of the helmet. The helmet came from a good friend of mine (85 years old from Pennsylvania) who has had it for years. It originally came from a hardware store in Philadelphia owned by a man over 80 years old and started by the over 80 year old man's father. Comments were made about the straight cutting of the leather. You will notice the pictures of helmets provided by individuals had very straight cut leather panels also. The helmet I am inquiring about additional information also is made of leather not synthetic material. It is rough on the back side as many pieces of old leather I have seen. The chin strap is shown in some of the pictures (as well as an old shoestring that was attached to it for some odd reason and has not been removed). I did check with the companies that make repo helmets and they felt it was original. Thanks again for all the help.

[jpop43]

Right up front, I'm not a vintage football helmet expert, but I really do like them and have seen a few in my time. I do have a bit more experience with vintage ball gloves, and sometimes, you do come across "new old stock", even really old, NOS. So, maybe its just possible that that's what we're seeing here. Again, I'll defer to those helmet experts out there and look forward to learning what we've got here after further dialogue.

To my point though, here is a glove that resides in our collection that fits the "new old stock" label even though its 90 years old.

Jonathan
www.dugouttreasures.com