Original Japanese Pre-WWII Type 30 Officer’s “Animal Brand” Pith Helmet by Helmet, Peace & Co. in Original Box - Kakumatsuya Osaka U.S. Ordnance recreational apparatus

recreational apparatus

with the original blue worn away from decades of cleaning

so it is most likely not made from celluloid

near Elizabeth

The cylinder has been replaced

Original Japanese Pre-WWII Type 30 Officer’s “Animal Brand” Pith Helmet by Helmet, Peace & Co. in Original Box - Kakumatsuya Osaka U.S. Ordnance recreational apparatusOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is definitely an interesting helmet, and something we have only seen twice before! This sun hat falls into a category known as the Animal Brand hats due to the different names embossed on the sweatbands, this one being marked Kakumatsuya Osaka with the maker mark on the interior crown reading Helmet, Peace & Co. One of the great misconceptions of Japanese tropical headgear of the Second World War is that the