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Long story short, I arranged a sale of about 500 helmets over 20 years ago to a site sponser and cherry-picked what I thought was the best of them (15 or so) A have a couple with MP painted lines and decals as well. Any idea what the value would be? All helmets are swivel bale with bright green paint

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That marine cover if original is worth a few bucks, Steve1987 knows a lot about US items of this period! Nice lids!!
 
If any of them have the angled metal clip attached to the bail they are very late period...80's to 90's era.
Not a huge a value there. The camo covers, in your photo, are also very late period woodland camo. Not much value there either.
If the tin pots are in decent condition and do not have late period paint and straps then value goes up dramatically.
A complete set assembled as pictured may have some value though not a huge amount
A few years a go I found an MP painted lid, in Korean lettering...turned out to be a Marine Corps unit stationed in Korea assigned policing duties. Paid just under 800 for the set
Both the lid and liner were painted and both were fitted as per WW2 specs. Over the past 25 years of searching for good WW2 pots and liners I have seen more of these then I care to mention. There are a lot of real good ones out there and a lot of trash. Prices have been creeping up steadily and now a clean WW2 all original piece with a generic high pressure liner is approaching 300. Add a rare liner and the price goes ballistic. Just recently I acquired a stone cold mint Hawley Fiber liner (Ultra rare in this condition)...had to pay 4 figures for it and that was with no tin pot. A few years ago I found a pair of lids with liners and camo covers exactly what you have pictured and paid 50 bucks a piece, which at that time was top end for them. Not much difference today for the same thing.
The best piece in the group is the USMC cover, again late era. A closer examination of the construction of the cover would be needed to determine value though.
They are cool lids and basically look complete though one appears to be missing the chin strap.
 
The helmet cover with USMC stamp on front is a WWII item.

The stamp was applied post-WWII though unfortunately, they were still using surplus WWII covers in Korea but required the EGA stamp at that point to match the current production. No USMC helmet covers had EGA stamps in WWII.

Still a nice cover though, probably worth up to $100 alone.

The other helmets appear to mostly fall into the category of military surplus from the 70's to 90's. Probably looking at $50-$90 a helmet to the right buyers.

-Steve

edit: Here's an early WWII USMC helmet from my collection:

 
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Steve1897...Nice looking Hawley liner in that helmet, even appears to have the square buckle fixed chinstrap. A damn good liner!!!
The fixed bale looks to have the reinforcing bar on the chinstrap latch...good feature to see on the early lids.
 
I don't know what the "transitional" reference means? The helmet with the bars (painted) was in the USMC helmet. I took all of the picture today. These are the only helmets I have left. The rest went to a long time site sponser well over 20 years ago. My recollection is that over 500 helmets were loaded into a Dodge Omni for their drive to Hawkesbury from Mississauga, Ont.
 
Sorry I screwed up, thought you had years ago a particular helmet, but now I remember it was Snowdog. My apologies!
 
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