That is because gas masks and helmets were inseparable in its early development. I mentioned that I wrote this initially together with the helmet story. But let’s keep that 78-year old secret for another 20 minutes or so and begin our story. Why? There is a secret behind this paradox, which I will be revealing for the first time in the history of Japanese militaria collecting. Yet Ramon’s Type 87 masks are all in better shape than the typical WW2 examples. But trying to open the hardened cookies unfortunately only brings bad fortune, which is how that kind of cookie always crumbles. Japanese gas masks are notorious for deteriorating into something that looks more like a Chinese fortune cookie than a mask. Ramon gets the history behind the rare masks in his collection and I get the pictures I needed, but the readers get both for free, making it a Win-Win-Win situation. So this is my first collaboration article. Ramon Padilla in Spain is a collector of Japanese gas masks and I was excited to see that his collection featured some of the early gas masks that I needed to complete what I set out to do 6 years ago. But after 6 years, someone did finally fish that morsel out and used the article on his gas mask site. So I only published a small section of it in a forum just for the sake of getting something out and shelved the rest.Īs expected, the article published really didn’t receive attention and just sank to the bottom of the pit full of the usual questions “What is it that I bought?” or “How much is it worth?”. Without any visuals to bring things to life, reading about gas masks can be quite boring. This story was originally started 6 years ago at the same time I wrote my helmet story, but midway in the writing I stopped, because I realized I was badly missing photos and illustrations for the various types of early model gas masks I was writing about. It is now time to release several best kept wartime secrets, so please don't interrupt until I say "The End". I needed concentration to finish this work. I have been absent for the last few days from the forum with good reason.
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