CUIRASSIER TROOP HELMET, MODEL 1872 MODIFIED 1874, THIRD REPUBLIC.
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CUIRASSIER TROOP HELMET, MODEL 1872 MODIFIED 1874, THIRD REPUBLIC.
Helmet entirely made of steel.
The shell, made from a single stamped piece, is marked at the back with the size "59" and the manufacturer "HELBRANNER" (missing a small steel rivet).
The neck guard consists of a circular band welded flat under the rear edge of the extending band, with three brass half-spherical head nails riveted inside; a second concave band forming a throat, with rounded angles and welded on the inside at the bottom of the first one, bordered by a copper crimp placed astride.
The brass headband is stamped with a flaming grenade surrounded by laurel leaves adhering to the shell. Its base rests on the visor and its ends are riveted to the shell in the part hidden by the rosette of the chinstrap.
Each chinstrap is composed of 15 copper scales alternately cut in groups of three or two scallops decreasing in width, fastened with flattened wire staples on a leather core lined with black sheepskin. The right chinstrap is garnished at its end with a small copper plate riveted to which a buckle also in copper is fitted. At the end of the left one, there is a similar plate with a copper "D" fitting, fitted with a black varnished calf counter-loop.
The top scale of each chinstrap is covered with a circular copper rosette, 43 mm in diameter, representing four relief ribs.
The shell is surmounted by a copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins decorated with palmettes and a border net at their upper edge; the rim is decorated with water leaves, all embossed in relief.
A tinplate joins the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, which serves as the front joint between the two fins through a weld, is embossed with a relief head of Medusa. The covering, also embossed, represents the continuation of the hair of Medusa's head with intertwined snakes. Mask re-welded on the right side.
Black horsehair mane about 55 cm long.
Embosed copper plume holder, height 35 mm, forming a socket, fixed obliquely, from bottom to top, on the shell, a little in front of the left chinstrap, by means of two threaded rods passing through the shell.
The inner lining composed of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin coif with 7 wolf teeth, mounted posteriorly.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens formed by two shells embossed with flowers and palmettes. Attached to the front of the crest and supporting a red tufted horsehair plume.
Good state of preservation, some small blemishes on the visor. At the back of the plume holder, some very minor oxidation spots, one of which has pierced the shell (1 mm in diameter).
France.
Third Republic.
Helmet entirely made of steel.
The shell, made from a single stamped piece, is marked at the back with the size "59" and the manufacturer "HELBRANNER" (missing a small steel rivet).
The neck guard consists of a circular band welded flat under the rear edge of the extending band, with three brass half-spherical head nails riveted inside; a second concave band forming a throat, with rounded angles and welded on the inside at the bottom of the first one, bordered by a copper crimp placed astride.
The brass headband is stamped with a flaming grenade surrounded by laurel leaves adhering to the shell. Its base rests on the visor and its ends are riveted to the shell in the part hidden by the rosette of the chinstrap.
Each chinstrap is composed of 15 copper scales alternately cut in groups of three or two scallops decreasing in width, fastened with flattened wire staples on a leather core lined with black sheepskin. The right chinstrap is garnished at its end with a small copper plate riveted to which a buckle also in copper is fitted. At the end of the left one, there is a similar plate with a copper "D" fitting, fitted with a black varnished calf counter-loop.
The top scale of each chinstrap is covered with a circular copper rosette, 43 mm in diameter, representing four relief ribs.
The shell is surmounted by a copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins decorated with palmettes and a border net at their upper edge; the rim is decorated with water leaves, all embossed in relief.
A tinplate joins the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, which serves as the front joint between the two fins through a weld, is embossed with a relief head of Medusa. The covering, also embossed, represents the continuation of the hair of Medusa's head with intertwined snakes. Mask re-welded on the right side.
Black horsehair mane about 55 cm long.
Embosed copper plume holder, height 35 mm, forming a socket, fixed obliquely, from bottom to top, on the shell, a little in front of the left chinstrap, by means of two threaded rods passing through the shell.
The inner lining composed of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin coif with 7 wolf teeth, mounted posteriorly.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens formed by two shells embossed with flowers and palmettes. Attached to the front of the crest and supporting a red tufted horsehair plume.
Good state of preservation, some small blemishes on the visor. At the back of the plume holder, some very minor oxidation spots, one of which has pierced the shell (1 mm in diameter).
France.
Third Republic.
Reference :
19196/5071
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