US, WWI - M1917 AEF Brodie Helmet by Edward Budd

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United States, WWI - M1917 American Expeditionary Forces Brodie Helmet by the Edward. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia. The shell is constructed out of a bowl shape pressed and stamped steel base that has been green texture painted. The exterior edge features a folded over re-enforced rim. The top is painted, in red: “200 1200”. The very top has a hammered-on copper rivet and the two sides have steel side rivets, all which attach the interior liner. The interior back edge is heat / lot coded: “ZC 177”. Each side has a steel rectangular shaped chin strap loop that has been riveted in place. The liner is a multi-piece construction. The tan leather strap is riveted to the very top, with a washer, which holds a white buckram cloth, a thin white pad, larger green wool pad and white cloth tag which reads, in black ink: “Tighten Cord and Adjust Net to Fit Head”. It also has three rivets to each side, one holds the inner liner, the other holds the strap together and the last goes through the rectangular chin strap loop and one holds a brass rectangular shaped round wire loop for the chinstrap. The strap is also size marked: “6 3/4”. The inner lining made of a brown tanned leather (with black hardened leather piece alternating within the exterior slits), a white buckram cloth, a string net and cord mess configuration and a black oilcloth sweatband, that have all been stitched together. Underneath the sweat band it is maker marked, in black ink: “Long 1917” (Leather Wear Manufacturing Co.: R. H. Long & Co. of Brooklyn, New York 1917) and also features a rectangular inspection stamp. It shows age throughout. It measures 12 3/16 inches long by 11 3/8 inches wide by 4 5/8 inches tall. Overall, a nice piece.