{"id":1995,"date":"2014-08-21T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2015-10-27T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:18:47","slug":"rare-protective-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/rare-protective-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare protective mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1996\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-674.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1996\" alt=\"Pre WWII gas mask w accessorise\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-674-211x300.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-674-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-674.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre-WWII gas mask w accessories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I&#8217;m a collector based in Chicago who specializes in mostly gas masks or war masks weather they be cold weather pieces or pilot respirators. I have a few very scarce pieces that I was wondering if you would be interested in purchasing. The mask pictured is an unknown WWI era Italian prototype mask. It was obtained from a very well known collector in Spain who owns about 2500 masks. It comes in a tin which is stamped 1916 but the mask may possibly be post-war and just stuffed into an older tin. It is definitely pre-WWII though. It looks to be based off of the tampon mask but has multiple strange features which make it stand out from the rest. The mask was found in a chemical factory along with a couple other rare WWI pieces.\u00a0 Rick, 674<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 What a great mask this is, and I&#8217;m so glad to share it with our viewers.<!--more--> As far as possibly buying it goes, MasksoftheWorld.com is for a wide range of collectors and we purposely keep our prices in the medium-to-low range. You should be offering this to a select few of highly specialized collectors. It might have been an inspiration for certain steampunk and sexual fetish masks!\u00a0 <strong>A+<\/strong> (This grade is for museum pieces.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I&#8217;m a collector based in Chicago who specializes in mostly gas masks or war masks weather they be cold weather pieces or pilot respirators. I have a few very scarce pieces that I was wondering if you would be interested in purchasing. The mask pictured is an unknown WWI era Italian prototype mask. It was obtained from a very well known collector in Spain who owns about 2500 masks. It comes in a tin which is stamped 1916 but the mask may possibly be post-war and just stuffed into an older tin. It is definitely pre-WWII though. It looks to be based off of the tampon mask but has multiple strange features which make it stand out from the rest. The mask was found in a chemical factory along with a couple other rare WWI pieces.\u00a0 Rick, 674 A:\u00a0 What a great mask this is, and I&#8217;m so glad to share it with our viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}