Lot 6262
A helmet M 1858 for members of the Cuirassiers and a cuirass M 1825
Orders and Military Collectibles until 1918 | A109m | Live auction | 1500 Lots
Description
The skull in sheet iron (stamped on the reverse “973”, “1854”, “4C” and “L” in an oval) with turban in sealskin (losses, laced at the rear) and brass fittings. Lavishly relief-decorated comb (dents) with Medusa's head, tracery and laurel décor, short black horsehair mane; chin-scales of wire rings on leather underlay on brass rosettes; marmouset and side feather plume missing, as is the liner. Also includes an iron cuirass for enlisted men without lining, with peripheral lining rivets, leather-backed shoulder chains and waist belt; the heavy breastplate signed along the lower edge “Manufre R ale de Chatellerault 8bre 1838 2T. 2L No. 407”, the backplate with illegible traces of a signature at the bottom, stamped on the right shoulder “994, 161” and “B”. All cuirass straps torn and repaired. Incomplete, slightly damaged, signs of wear and age.351943
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