Yard Sale Find - WWII German Helmet + WWI(?) Field Glasses Signed

I found these this morning at a yard sale - it was the same one I bought a Mauser(?) rifle mounted on wood with a VIETNAM '64 - '65 plaque.They were all being sold by a lady who said they were her ex husband's & she wanted to get her garage back.
The helmet is a RL2? (the lady has 2 more - 1 she said was a RMZ? she wanted $450 for & I wasn't sure if that was too much - I don't collect German stuff; I buy it to resell it) in very good condition - but the unusual/cool thing was a pair of (I believe) military field glasses/binoculars!
They are signed/etched Surgeon A.C. Morson. When I googled 'Surgeon A. C. Morson' I found this link which says a Doc A.C. Morson joined the war in London in 1914; which would make these binoculars WWI ?

Clifford Morson | The British Association of Urological Surgeons Limited (baus.org.uk)

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

 

Close up of inside of helmet:

 

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/or...air-defense-helmet-with-55cm-liner-dated-1938
The helmet I think.
Mikey

 

I think for luftschutz helmet you are correct 450 would have been too much. RMZ was there registration code for all military items RMZ + a number which would indicate helmet or dagger, cloth material etc

 

I think the leather around the main body grip area is missing from the binoculars.

 

I called her about a metal toolkit I passed on but now think may be for a Matchless motorcycle and she still has the other 2 helmets - but 450 seemed like a lot to me; is it worth it(I buy to resell - not a collector)? What marks or stamp should I look for?
PS - for the Luftschutz I paid $175?

 

Sticker looks the same!
Thanks!

 

Did I misunderstand..are the other helmets not luftschutz? If not they could well be worth more than the 450. I think the 175 was fine. If you have any interest this is a great site but beware...it is a military ww2 site. Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums

 

The helmets seem to range on Ebay for a median of $80-$300 )avg price.The Binocs would take some research-WWI stuff prices are all over the place.

 

No this is only one with Luftschutz on it?

 

I believe luftschutz followed by police are the least valuable of the ww2 German helmets, If you are able I would visit the Militaria site just for interest.

 

This is just an opinion...but I call those field glasses rather than binoculars.
Within my vernacular, binoculars have prisms in the light path; field glasses are simply a pair of telescopes ganged and collimated together.
Following those you show there are very similar glasses, but with inter-pupillary distance adjustment.
I'll add pics of a WWI pair I have with that feature...they also had badly deteriorated leather covering on the barrels, which I have whittled off, a bit at a time.

 

Lower end I would imagine given the look of the lining

55 is quite a small head size as well

 

Luftschutz often composed of hitler youth quite young

 

Ahh interesting, makes sense

 

If I'm buying a Nazi helmet, I want one to fit when I'm going down to the supermarket buying groceries

 

As promised. They're not quite as ugly as they were before the crummy leather got striped...but the view through them is really fine. Jena glass, Zeiss optics...pretty advanced for its day. I use 'em a bit, and like 'em a lot!
No prisms, individual focus an' adjustable inter-pupillary distance that is lockable, a feature I've not seen elsewhere.

 

Whit-Yr optical knowledge's impressive...'adjustable inter-pupillary distance that is lockable'.(?)

 

Thanks, bosco...
The knurled knob with Zeiss Jena mark must be loosened before moving the barrels around the central hinge-mount. When adjusted for an individual's eye-spacing, it may be tightened to preserve that setting. Probably an officer's pair of glasses; such convenience wouldn't be offered to rank & file soldiers, I'm thinking.

 

Not so much...it's just that I've collected individual-focus binoculars for 50 years. I've sold most of them, down to a fat half-dozen now. Only got two eyes, an' two hands...how many pair does a fella need?