Lot 6547
A helmet for the Baden Dragoons, circa 1900
Orders and Military Collectibles until 1918 | A109m | Live auction | 1500 Lots
Description
Black lacquered leather body (sunken, craquelures, pressure marks and abrasion) with angular front visor and white and yellow metal fittings. The Baden griffin emblem screw-mounted at the forehead. Convex, leather-backed brass chinscales on screw rosettes, both cockades of lacquered sheet metal. Cruciform base plate with four round-head screws, bead ring and smooth nickel silver funnel with white buffalo hair plume (funnel replaced, merely inserted, threaded rod does not fit). Good black leather tab liner. Inside the skull the old size indication “55”. Partially damaged, signs of use and age.Condition: II - III Questions about the lot?
