SET OF HELMET AND BREASTPLATE OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD CUIRASSIERS, MODEL 1854, SECOND EMPIRE.
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SET OF HELMET AND CUIRASS OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD CUIRASSIERS, MODEL 1854, SECOND EMPIRE.
HELMET with a steel shell, visor, and neck guard with brass fittings. Shell engraved with "370," dated 1854. Front band embossed with a crowned N placed on two laurel branches. Crest composed of two fins adorned with a series of decreasing panels towards the back and bordered at the top with laurel leaves; and an embossed mask at the top depicting the head of Medusa. Brass ornament on the crest with red horsehair. Black horsehair mane with a braided center plait. Chin strap with intertwined rings and rosettes stamped with laurel leaves. Interior leather liner cut in wolf's teeth pattern.
Red rooster feather plume, approximately 20 cm in height visible, extending to about 26 cm with the whalebone, adorned with a tricolor cockade of the general staff.
In good condition.
CUIRASS made of steel consisting of a backplate and a breastplate similarly marked on the outer edges with "65" scratched out and re-marked "979", then scratched out again and re-marked "477". Breastplate bordered with 21 brass rivets and marked inside with "Imperial Manufacture Klingenthal Coulaux & Cpie - 1856 3rd size 1st width n°141". Backplate bordered with 39 brass rivets, adorned at the top with two leather straps covered with an interlaced brass mesh chain with a steel lock, and at the bottom with a black leather belt. Backplate similarly marked as the breastplate.
Very good condition.
France.
Second Empire.
HELMET with a steel shell, visor, and neck guard with brass fittings. Shell engraved with "370," dated 1854. Front band embossed with a crowned N placed on two laurel branches. Crest composed of two fins adorned with a series of decreasing panels towards the back and bordered at the top with laurel leaves; and an embossed mask at the top depicting the head of Medusa. Brass ornament on the crest with red horsehair. Black horsehair mane with a braided center plait. Chin strap with intertwined rings and rosettes stamped with laurel leaves. Interior leather liner cut in wolf's teeth pattern.
Red rooster feather plume, approximately 20 cm in height visible, extending to about 26 cm with the whalebone, adorned with a tricolor cockade of the general staff.
In good condition.
CUIRASS made of steel consisting of a backplate and a breastplate similarly marked on the outer edges with "65" scratched out and re-marked "979", then scratched out again and re-marked "477". Breastplate bordered with 21 brass rivets and marked inside with "Imperial Manufacture Klingenthal Coulaux & Cpie - 1856 3rd size 1st width n°141". Backplate bordered with 39 brass rivets, adorned at the top with two leather straps covered with an interlaced brass mesh chain with a steel lock, and at the bottom with a black leather belt. Backplate similarly marked as the breastplate.
Very good condition.
France.
Second Empire.
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