I have a WW2 Germanicon helmet which I picked up a year or 2 ago and has been repainted, black and detailed with post war Norwegianicon insignia. Thanks to Kozowy1967's info above I can identify it as a M40. Apparently, Norway used German helmets post war.
During the mid war period my father who was a child at the time and some friends found a German helmet and a pair of Jackboots in a hedgerow near Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Unfortunately, my Grandfather insisted on handing these items in to the authorities. I have often pondered how they came to be in a hedgerow in Englandicon during the war but all I can think is that they were discarded/hidden there by a British soldier who had "obtained" them as a souvenir perhaps with the intention of retrieving them later. On the recent series of Combat Dealers it was suggested that British Soldiers were officially banned from bringing souvenirs home in WW2 although we all know that they often did. Can any-one, please, confirm that there was such a ban on British soldiers in WW2 and also what the current policy is within the U.K. armed forces regarding souvenirs.