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. It consists of:
Shell, made of cast and pressed steel, pierced at the top with four suction cup holes. Stamped with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" size "52". The inside of the shell has a label from Alexis Godillot on white paper printed in blue with the size indicated.
Visor (width 5 cm) and neck cover edged with an 8 mm wide brass strip placed along its edges. The underside of the visor is lined with brown waxed leather and the underside of the neck cover is missing.
The shell, made of a single pressed piece, is stamped at the back with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" (oxidation on the shell).
Neck cover composed of a circular band on its flat surface, welded under the rear edge of the extending band, with three golden 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 band, bordered by a copper setting placed on top.
Headband, in brass, stamped with a flaming grenade surrounded by laurel leaves, attached 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 chin strap.
Each chin strap is made up of 15 copper scales alternately cut in groups of three or two scallops decreasing in width, fixed with flattened wire staples on a core of leather lined with black sheepskin. The right chin strap 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 strap, there is a similar plate with a copper D plate attached with a black varnished calf leather counter-joint.
The upper scale of each chin strap is covered with a copper rosette, circular in shape (diameter 4.3 cm) representing four relief brass strips.
The shell is topped with a copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins adorned with palmettes and a border on their upper edge; the rim is decorated with water leaves, all embossed in relief.
A tin plate connects the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, serving as the anterior junction of the two fins through a solder joint, is embossed with a relief head of Medusa. The cover, also embossed, represents the continuation of the Medusa head's hair with intertwined snakes.
Black horsehair mane around 55 cm long.
Stamped copper plume holder, H 3.5 cm, forming a socket, fixed obliquely, from bottom to top, to the shell, slightly in front of the left chin strap, using two threaded rods passing through the shell.
The inner lining consists of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin cap with 8 wolf teeth.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens formed by two shells stamped with flowers and palmettes. Attached to the front of the crest and supporting a scarlet tufted plume made of horsehair.
Very good state of preservation, some rust spots on the shell.
France.
Third Republic.
Helmet entirely made of steel. It consists of:
Shell, made of cast and pressed steel, pierced at the top with four suction cup holes. Stamped with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" size "52". The inside of the shell has a label from Alexis Godillot on white paper printed in blue with the size indicated.
Visor (width 5 cm) and neck cover edged with an 8 mm wide brass strip placed along its edges. The underside of the visor is lined with brown waxed leather and the underside of the neck cover is missing.
The shell, made of a single pressed piece, is stamped at the back with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" (oxidation on the shell).
Neck cover composed of a circular band on its flat surface, welded under the rear edge of the extending band, with three golden 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 band, bordered by a copper setting placed on top.
Headband, in brass, stamped with a flaming grenade surrounded by laurel leaves, attached 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 chin strap.
Each chin strap is made up of 15 copper scales alternately cut in groups of three or two scallops decreasing in width, fixed with flattened wire staples on a core of leather lined with black sheepskin. The right chin strap 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 strap, there is a similar plate with a copper D plate attached with a black varnished calf leather counter-joint.
The upper scale of each chin strap is covered with a copper rosette, circular in shape (diameter 4.3 cm) representing four relief brass strips.
The shell is topped with a copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins adorned with palmettes and a border on their upper edge; the rim is decorated with water leaves, all embossed in relief.
A tin plate connects the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, serving as the anterior junction of the two fins through a solder joint, is embossed with a relief head of Medusa. The cover, also embossed, represents the continuation of the Medusa head's hair with intertwined snakes.
Black horsehair mane around 55 cm long.
Stamped copper plume holder, H 3.5 cm, forming a socket, fixed obliquely, from bottom to top, to the shell, slightly in front of the left chin strap, using two threaded rods passing through the shell.
The inner lining consists of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin cap with 8 wolf teeth.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens formed by two shells stamped with flowers and palmettes. Attached to the front of the crest and supporting a scarlet tufted plume made of horsehair.
Very good state of preservation, some rust spots on the shell.
France.
Third Republic.
Reference :
19036-2
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