Original British WWII Homefront Baby Infant Gas Mask Category_Brunswick Guns The band is period authentic

The band is period authentic and in new old stock condition

and may possibly indicate where it was stored when not in use

properly at the wrong time

SHAEF moved to Frankfurt

and the scabbard also has the Czech lion on the bayonet stud

Original British WWII Homefront Baby Infant Gas Mask Category_Brunswick Guns The band is period authenticOriginal Item: Only One Available. This looks like a deep sea diving helmet but is in fact a gas mask for babies, dating from World War II. In 1938, the British Government gave everyone, including babies, gas masks to protect them in case the Germans dropped poison gas bombs on Britain. This gas mask was for children up to two years old. The parents placed their baby inside the mask so that the head was inside the steel helmet and the baby could see