I find this highly questionable. No one can prove where this cast came from but the guy you bought it from and the guy he bought it from all the way back to who casted it. That's the only way to get the answer to your question - that is not for me to answer. I can only give my two cents on what I think it originated from - I can NEVER prove anything, since I didn't cast it or buy it and resell it... I have no way of knowing the truth of its origin.
It could have come directly from the Jeff mold or someone could have made a cast of one of the GH family tree helmets and sold it. Who knows, but the original caster of the helmet you got. I have no way of proving whether it is either or, but it shares too many structural similarities to the GH family tree Vader helmets - especially the face - to be of anything outside that family.
Basically, it is not up to me to prove it's lineage, but basically up to you, since you are about to offer it up for sale on some, imo, very questionable grounds. You still haven't figured out its origins - not having gotten a reply back from Jeff or any other mentioned who might be the original maker, is not to be considered a green light to make casts and sell copies. Heck, the maker of this particular helmet, doesn't even HAVE to be one of the people mentioned, but could be someone who bought one of the helmets and then made a cast of it for some odd reason and then desided to sell it. The only way to find out is to ask the one you bought it from to reveal who he/she bought it from and so on back in the chain of owners. You could basically be sitting with a recast of a recast, cleaned up, sharpened, recast again. Who knows except the previous owners.?
But it still doesn't detract from the photographic evidence, which you have yourself provided that this is in no doubt a member of the GH family tree, as so clearly shown in the comparison photo by Sithlord on page 3, post 4 & RKW on the same page, post 8 in this very topic. Though there are subtle changes between the various casts there are some key features that are integral to these helmet: the nose ridges are angled the wrong way, the teeth are angled the wrong way, the cheeks are curved wrong and are going in a straight line up to the eyes, where the originals are curved, the eyes are more oval and many more minor details that are hard to correct when cleaning up the cast.
Your helmet shares these traits with the helmets in the GH family tree - that's why it can only have come from that source... any of them... in any number of ways. But the only way to get the truth is to get the truth from the one who sold it to you about where he got it from.
I'm still very surprised that you can offer casts of a helmet, which you apparently know nothing about. And since you don't know where it came from, then how can you have gotten permission to make casts of it other than from the guy you bought it from - but if he isn't the one who made the helmet, then he has absolutely NO right to give you permission to cast it.
But, since I am over-ruled in the recasting issue I will not pursue this any further. I just find it questionable, also the price you are asking for casts of this helmet, but seeing as you have no scrouples to offer this without knowing the truth about the helmet and that people will sign up to buy then I guess it won't really matter what I have to say, except that I definitely won't be signing up to buy one...
I bid you good luck in your future business, since it seems you'll be making a s**tload of money from this project.
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