Lieutenant's helmet of the 7th Cuirassier Regiment, model 1874.
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LIEUTENANT'S HELMET OF THE 7th CUIRASSIER REGIMENT, MODEL 1874.
Helmet composed of: a skull; a visor; a neck guard; a copper headband; two chinstraps; a crest; a mane; a plume holder; a crest ornament; and an interior lining.
The skull is made of silver-plated metal, embossed with a balance, planed with a hammer. It has five suction holes at the top.
Visor inclined at 53 degrees below a horizontal plane passing through the junction of the visor and the skull. It is bordered by a 17mm wide gilded copper circle placed astride its edges and fixed at the ends with a rivet. The underside of the visor is covered with green leather.
The neck guard is composed of a circular band on its flat side, welded under the posterior edge of the band it extends, with three gilded brass nails with half-spherical heads riveted inside; a second concave band, forming a groove with rounded corners and welded inside, at the bottom of the first. Like the visor, the neck guard is bordered by a 17mm wide gilded copper setting placed astride. The neck guard is lined with brown leather.
The copper headband is stamped with a flaming grenade surrounded by laurel leaves and adherent to the skull. Its base rests on the visor and its ends are riveted to the skull in the part hidden by the chinstrap rosette.
Each chinstrap is composed of 9 ornamented copper scales, embossed in relief with laurel leaves, decreasing in width. These scales are fixed with flattened wire brads on a black velvet-lined leather core. Absence of the black varnished calfskin chinstrap. The upper scale of each chinstrap is finished with a rounded part embossed with a circular rosette featuring raised laurel leaves, held to the skull by a screw.
The skull is topped with a gilded copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering. The fins are placed vertically at a distance of 32mm in the front and 25mm in the back, with a convex curvilinear triangle shape at their upper part, connecting to the skull with a concave base forming a scalloped rim. The rim is fixed to the skull with copper round-headed grease-drop screws stopped inside the helmet with square copper nuts. The fins are adorned with palmettes and a border at their upper edge; the rim is decorated with water leaves, all embossed in relief. A tin-plated plate connects the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing. The mask, serving as the anterior junction for the two fins through a solder, is embossed in relief with a Medusa head. The covering, also embossed, represents the continuation of Medusa's hair with intertwined snakes.
The crest ornament consists of an embossed socket with raised water leaves and a lens made of two embossed shells. It is fixed on the front of the crest, supporting a plume holder with a tuft of horsehair.
Black dyed horsehair mane mounted on a thick nourished cowhide sole, in which the hair is assembled with tinned brass threads and a calfskin piece glued with strong glue to the assembly; the empty space between the two rows of hair is filled with a braid starting from the top and following the curve of the crest to its junction with the skull. The mane is fixed to the crest with two copper screws with nuts.
An embossed copper plume holder, 35mm high, forming a socket with square sections, fixed obliquely.
Interior lining in lustrous brown leather, cut with ten sawtooth, each adorned with a golden metal eyelet ironed to the outer edge.
Very good condition, superb 100% gilding on the brass parts, slight oxidation of the screws, damage to the fixing screw of the crest ornament, worn interior padding.
Headwear directly from the family who unfortunately erased the lieutenant's name on the small green cardboard tag attached to the padding.
Third Republic.
Helmet composed of: a skull; a visor; a neck guard; a copper headband; two chinstraps; a crest; a mane; a plume holder; a crest ornament; and an interior lining.
The skull is made of silver-plated metal, embossed with a balance, planed with a hammer. It has five suction holes at the top.
Visor inclined at 53 degrees below a horizontal plane passing through the junction of the visor and the skull. It is bordered by a 17mm wide gilded copper circle placed astride its edges and fixed at the ends with a rivet. The underside of the visor is covered with green leather.
The neck guard is composed of a circular band on its flat side, welded under the posterior edge of the band it extends, with three gilded brass nails with half-spherical heads riveted inside; a second concave band, forming a groove with rounded corners and welded inside, at the bottom of the first. Like the visor, the neck guard is bordered by a 17mm wide gilded copper setting placed astride. The neck guard is lined with brown leather.
The copper headband is stamped with a flaming grenade surrounded by laurel leaves and adherent to the skull. Its base rests on the visor and its ends are riveted to the skull in the part hidden by the chinstrap rosette.
Each chinstrap is composed of 9 ornamented copper scales, embossed in relief with laurel leaves, decreasing in width. These scales are fixed with flattened wire brads on a black velvet-lined leather core. Absence of the black varnished calfskin chinstrap. The upper scale of each chinstrap is finished with a rounded part embossed with a circular rosette featuring raised laurel leaves, held to the skull by a screw.
The skull is topped with a gilded copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering. The fins are placed vertically at a distance of 32mm in the front and 25mm in the back, with a convex curvilinear triangle shape at their upper part, connecting to the skull with a concave base forming a scalloped rim. The rim is fixed to the skull with copper round-headed grease-drop screws stopped inside the helmet with square copper nuts. The fins are adorned with palmettes and a border at their upper edge; the rim is decorated with water leaves, all embossed in relief. A tin-plated plate connects the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing. The mask, serving as the anterior junction for the two fins through a solder, is embossed in relief with a Medusa head. The covering, also embossed, represents the continuation of Medusa's hair with intertwined snakes.
The crest ornament consists of an embossed socket with raised water leaves and a lens made of two embossed shells. It is fixed on the front of the crest, supporting a plume holder with a tuft of horsehair.
Black dyed horsehair mane mounted on a thick nourished cowhide sole, in which the hair is assembled with tinned brass threads and a calfskin piece glued with strong glue to the assembly; the empty space between the two rows of hair is filled with a braid starting from the top and following the curve of the crest to its junction with the skull. The mane is fixed to the crest with two copper screws with nuts.
An embossed copper plume holder, 35mm high, forming a socket with square sections, fixed obliquely.
Interior lining in lustrous brown leather, cut with ten sawtooth, each adorned with a golden metal eyelet ironed to the outer edge.
Very good condition, superb 100% gilding on the brass parts, slight oxidation of the screws, damage to the fixing screw of the crest ornament, worn interior padding.
Headwear directly from the family who unfortunately erased the lieutenant's name on the small green cardboard tag attached to the padding.
Third Republic.
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