Sten Return Spring Housing Snider Rifle Parts This helmet is stamped 946A

This helmet is stamped 946A which indicates the approximate manufacture date of late April 1944

The helmet's "soup bowl" shape was designed to protect the wearer's head and shoulders from Shrapnel shell projectiles bursting from above the trenches

The reverse ricasso is matching etched with RZM M7/80 denoting Gustav C

The oak-leaf cluster denotes a second award of the Silver Star

30-06 cartridges for the

Sten Return Spring Housing Snider Rifle Parts This helmet is stamped 946AOriginal Item: The Sten Return Spring Housing acts as a guide for the return (recoil) spring and prevents the kinking problems common to some submachine guns. The button projecting from its rear surface retains the butt stock or the hand grip on the gun, being another fine example of the efficient engineering thought applied to the Sten. Used. British WW2 manufacture, interchangeable with all marks of the Sten gun.