CUIRASSIER TROOP HELMET, MODEL 1872 MODIFIED 1874, THIRD REPUBLIC.
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CUIRASSIER'S HELMET, MODEL 1872 MODIFIED 1874, THIRD REPUBLIC.
Helmet entirely made of steel.
It comprises:
Bowl, made of cast steel sheet, stamped with a balance hammer, planished with a hammer and polished with a brush. Perforated at the top with four suction-cup holes.
Visor and neck guard edged with an 18mm wide brass wire placed on its edges. Underside of visor coated with brown leather.
The bowl, made from a single stamped piece, is stamped at the back with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" (oxidation on the bowl).
Neck guard composed of a circular band, welded flat under the posterior edge of the extending band, featuring three gilded brass half-spherical riveted nails on the inside; a second concave band, forming a throat, with rounded angles and welded inside, at the bottom of the first, bordered with a copper crimp placed over it.
Headband, in brass, stamped with a burning grenade surrounded by laurel leaves, adhering to the bowl. Its base rests on the visor, and its ends are riveted to the bowl in the part covered by the rosette of the chinstrap.
Each chinstrap is made up of 15 copper scales cut alternately in groups of three or two festoons decreasing in width, fastened by flattened wire staples on a leather core lined with black sheepskin. The right chinstrap is adorned at its end with a small copper plate riveted to which a buckle, also in copper, is attached. At the end of the left chinstrap, there is a similar plate holding a copper D with a black varnished calf lining. The top scale of each chinstrap is covered with a circular copper rosette, 43 mm in diameter, featuring four relief wires.
The bowl is topped with a copper crest consisting of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins decorated with palmettes and a border at their top edge; the edge is adorned with water leaves, all stamped in relief.
A tin plate joins the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, serving as the anterior junction of the two fins through soldering, is stamped with a raised head of Medusa. The covering, also stamped, represents the continuation of the hair of Medusa's head with intertwined snakes. The mask is resoldered on the right part.
Black horsehair mane of approximately 65 cm in length reattached to the sole in the upper part by means of a modern copper wire.
Copper stamped plume holder, 35 mm in height, forming a socket, fixed obliquely, from bottom to top, on the bowl, slightly in front of the left chinstrap, by two threaded rods through the bowl.
The interior trim, worn, consists of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin cap with 7 wolf teeth, mounted posteriorly.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens made of two shells stamped with flowers and palmettes. Fixed on the front of the crest and supporting a plume of a tuft of horsehair.
Good overall condition, oxidation on the bowl, some dents on the top of the crest.
France.
Third Republic.
Helmet entirely made of steel.
It comprises:
Bowl, made of cast steel sheet, stamped with a balance hammer, planished with a hammer and polished with a brush. Perforated at the top with four suction-cup holes.
Visor and neck guard edged with an 18mm wide brass wire placed on its edges. Underside of visor coated with brown leather.
The bowl, made from a single stamped piece, is stamped at the back with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" (oxidation on the bowl).
Neck guard composed of a circular band, welded flat under the posterior edge of the extending band, featuring three gilded brass half-spherical riveted nails on the inside; a second concave band, forming a throat, with rounded angles and welded inside, at the bottom of the first, bordered with a copper crimp placed over it.
Headband, in brass, stamped with a burning grenade surrounded by laurel leaves, adhering to the bowl. Its base rests on the visor, and its ends are riveted to the bowl in the part covered by the rosette of the chinstrap.
Each chinstrap is made up of 15 copper scales cut alternately in groups of three or two festoons decreasing in width, fastened by flattened wire staples on a leather core lined with black sheepskin. The right chinstrap is adorned at its end with a small copper plate riveted to which a buckle, also in copper, is attached. At the end of the left chinstrap, there is a similar plate holding a copper D with a black varnished calf lining. The top scale of each chinstrap is covered with a circular copper rosette, 43 mm in diameter, featuring four relief wires.
The bowl is topped with a copper crest consisting of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins decorated with palmettes and a border at their top edge; the edge is adorned with water leaves, all stamped in relief.
A tin plate joins the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, serving as the anterior junction of the two fins through soldering, is stamped with a raised head of Medusa. The covering, also stamped, represents the continuation of the hair of Medusa's head with intertwined snakes. The mask is resoldered on the right part.
Black horsehair mane of approximately 65 cm in length reattached to the sole in the upper part by means of a modern copper wire.
Copper stamped plume holder, 35 mm in height, forming a socket, fixed obliquely, from bottom to top, on the bowl, slightly in front of the left chinstrap, by two threaded rods through the bowl.
The interior trim, worn, consists of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin cap with 7 wolf teeth, mounted posteriorly.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens made of two shells stamped with flowers and palmettes. Fixed on the front of the crest and supporting a plume of a tuft of horsehair.
Good overall condition, oxidation on the bowl, some dents on the top of the crest.
France.
Third Republic.
Reference :
19197/5070
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