A parade helmet M 1889 and a parade cuirass for enlisted men of the Garde du Corps Tombac skull with rear spine, helmet plate in the form of an applied star with screw post fixings, mounted with black eagle, ridged front visor, convex leather-lined chinscales secured to rosettes, state and national cockade of lacquered sheet iron, screw-mounted parade eagle (the underside of the plate marked “58“) with silver crown, leather flap lining (small losses, cracks), front visor with brown leather underlay (green traces), the neck guard lined with black velvet-like fabric. With service spike on oval base. Parade cuirass with applications of non-ferrous metal, gilt studs along the perimeter, applied FR plate (small cypher “W II“), stamped “W“, “J“ and “III“ and “12“ at the shoulder, original lining of light-coloured cotton fabric, with additional black-white cotton stripes at the arms and neck. The back-plate with off-white cotton lining, handwritten on it the former owner‘s name “Korsch“ (?). Also included an M89 ammo bag with leather bandolier of later date. Partially slightly damaged, double perforations, small old repairs, patinated surfaces, rubbed, minor dents. Rare, very representative set of a unit of the Prussian guard corps. 333653 II € 5.000 | 405
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