CASQUE ET CUIRASSE D'OFFICIER DE CUIRASSIERS DE LA GARDE ROYALE, MODÈLE 1825, RESTAURATION.
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OFFICER HELMET AND CUIRASS OF THE ROYAL GUARD CUIRASSIERS, MODEL 1825, RESTORATION PERIOD.
HELMET, MODEL 1825:
Copper helmet plated with silver, visor and neck guard in copper plated with silver encircled by a gold-plated brass strip folded over the outer edge. Visor lined with green leather, neck guard lined with black leather.
Headband in gold-plated brass embossed with a flaming bomb, with the body displaying in relief three fleur-de-lis, framed with laurel and oak branches, all on a sanded background.
Crest in gold-plated embossed brass, featuring a mask bearing at the base the Arms of France surmounted by a relief head of Medusa on a sanded background; two flaps stamped with a decreasing row of 13 gadroons framed with pearls and tears separated by acanthus leaves, on a sanded background.
Bearskin plume (often a distinctive sign of senior officers).
Gold-plated brass jugulars in an intertwined figure-eight pattern etched mounted on a chinstrap in iron covered with fine black fabric; gold-plated brass rosette embossed with a radiant sun on a sanded background, attached to the helmet with a chiseled and gilded screw.
Gold-plated brass plume holder.
Inner lining in black leather cut in a wolf teeth pattern gilded at the edge.
Perfect state of preservation, retaining all its gilding and silver plating.
CUIRASS, MODEL 1816:
Made of steel consisting of a backplate and breastplate.
BREASTPLATE edged with 34 brass nails. In the center, a motif in gilded copper depicting the arms of France and Navarre crowned on a sunburst background (H 21 cm, L 17 cm). Two nails are riveted at chest level for attaching the shoulder pads of the backplate (these nails have been moved, a modification from the First Empire to adapt the central motif).
BACKPLATE edged with 28 brass nails, topped with two straps. The straps are attached to the backplate by a large relief-stamped brass lion's head; they consist of a brass chainmail pattern intertwined in a figure-eight shape; they end with a gilded brass lock, embossed with a large fleur-de-lis, with red leather straps whose edges are relief-molded hotly (this model of cuirass is rare and the shoulder pads are never lined with leather, a noticeable characteristic on almost all existing cuirasses, those of this model lined with morocco leather are the ones with a double chainmail pattern of intertwined rings).
At the bottom, a red morocco belt embroidered with two inlaid stripes in golden silver threads is fixed with two brass screws on each side.
In perfect condition.
France.
Second Restoration, reign of Louis XVIII (1816-1825).
HELMET, MODEL 1825:
Copper helmet plated with silver, visor and neck guard in copper plated with silver encircled by a gold-plated brass strip folded over the outer edge. Visor lined with green leather, neck guard lined with black leather.
Headband in gold-plated brass embossed with a flaming bomb, with the body displaying in relief three fleur-de-lis, framed with laurel and oak branches, all on a sanded background.
Crest in gold-plated embossed brass, featuring a mask bearing at the base the Arms of France surmounted by a relief head of Medusa on a sanded background; two flaps stamped with a decreasing row of 13 gadroons framed with pearls and tears separated by acanthus leaves, on a sanded background.
Bearskin plume (often a distinctive sign of senior officers).
Gold-plated brass jugulars in an intertwined figure-eight pattern etched mounted on a chinstrap in iron covered with fine black fabric; gold-plated brass rosette embossed with a radiant sun on a sanded background, attached to the helmet with a chiseled and gilded screw.
Gold-plated brass plume holder.
Inner lining in black leather cut in a wolf teeth pattern gilded at the edge.
Perfect state of preservation, retaining all its gilding and silver plating.
CUIRASS, MODEL 1816:
Made of steel consisting of a backplate and breastplate.
BREASTPLATE edged with 34 brass nails. In the center, a motif in gilded copper depicting the arms of France and Navarre crowned on a sunburst background (H 21 cm, L 17 cm). Two nails are riveted at chest level for attaching the shoulder pads of the backplate (these nails have been moved, a modification from the First Empire to adapt the central motif).
BACKPLATE edged with 28 brass nails, topped with two straps. The straps are attached to the backplate by a large relief-stamped brass lion's head; they consist of a brass chainmail pattern intertwined in a figure-eight shape; they end with a gilded brass lock, embossed with a large fleur-de-lis, with red leather straps whose edges are relief-molded hotly (this model of cuirass is rare and the shoulder pads are never lined with leather, a noticeable characteristic on almost all existing cuirasses, those of this model lined with morocco leather are the ones with a double chainmail pattern of intertwined rings).
At the bottom, a red morocco belt embroidered with two inlaid stripes in golden silver threads is fixed with two brass screws on each side.
In perfect condition.
France.
Second Restoration, reign of Louis XVIII (1816-1825).
Reference :
4663
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