Pirelli vintage mask

[marcosurf82]

Hello everyone!

I'm Marco from Ancona, Italy. Yesterday a friend of mine gave me an old Pirelli mask. I would like to know the history (year, the name of the model...)
I didn't find anything on the internet.

Can someone give me some information?

Many many thanks !
Ciao
Marco

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

I know nothing of the providence but that looks like a full-face mask. Quite a piece of history, there, I would imagine.

maybe scrub these posts:

Thread 'Basic gear from mid-twentieth-century Italy: Mares and Pirelli'

Jul 8, 2020

Our previous thread focused on historical diving equipment manufactured by Cressi sub in Genoa, the capital of the northern Italian region of Liguria. We now follow the Mediterranean coast (see map above) to reach our next destination, which is the municipality of Rapallo in the Metropolitan City of Genoa. Rapallo is the seaside resort and port where Ludovico Mares founded the diving equipment company bearing his name in 1949.

While brothers Egidio and Nanni Cressi were Genoese born and bred, Ludovico Mares came late to this Italian city. For Mares' biography, I am indebted...

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and see if you can find it.

 

[Kupu]

It looks like the mask from a Pirelli Tricheco. Photos and history can be viewed at Blu Time History.

 

[happy-diver]

Ah yes the provenance to be a Picasso or not to be a Picasso that is the question of provenance

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

@David Wilson

 

[David Wilson]

I agree with Kupu, likely to be a Pirelli Tricheco diving mask. As a model integrated with a scuba-supplied air supply, this item lies outside my knowledge of basic underwater equipment.

The main source of information on the Pirelli Tricheco is indeed PIRELLI TRICHECO (Walrus) SCUBA UNIT. On the same website at Complete catalogues you will find late-1950s and 1960s Pirelli catalogues offering the Tricheco for sale and providing more information about the product.