Lot 6672
A helmet M 1886 for infantry officers
Orders and Military Collectibles until 1918 | A109m | Live auction | 1500 Lots
Description
Black lacquered leather helmet body (sunken, craquelures, traces of heat on the visors) with angular front visor and gilt brass fittings. Pinned emblem. Rear spine, cruciform base plate with bead-and-reel frieze, three star-shaped pins (fourth front hole in the body unused) and detachable, fluted spike. Flat, leather-backed chin-scales on plug-in rosettes, both officer's cockades of lacquered sheet metal. Light brown leather sweatband with light blue silk rep lining (soiled, tears), visors backed in green and red respectively, inside the skull the old size indication “55 1/2”. Partially slightly damaged, signs of age.Condition: II - III Questions about the lot?
