Original French WWI Era Adrian Helmet Wooden Trinket Box with Rough Adrian Inkwell Cover Category_Water Jacket Assembly above serial number 285021

above serial number 285021

all over the Western Front

particularly on the left ear flap

The following excerpt is from the book Military Pyrotechnics: The History and Development of Military Pyrotechnics

Kuhn (25 August 1917)

Original French WWI Era Adrian Helmet Wooden Trinket Box with Rough Adrian Inkwell Cover Category_Water Jacket Assembly above serial number 285021Original Items. Only One Lot Available. This is a nice pair of souvenir pieces made to appear like the French Adrian helmet. The Adrian helmet was an influential design of combat helmet originally produced for the French Army during World War I. Its original version, the M15, was the first standard helmet of the French Army and was designed when millions of French troops were engaged in trench warfare, and head wounds from the falling shrapnel