SHAKO OFFICER OF THE 70TH LINE INFANTRY REGIMENT, Presidency of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte. 27282

SHAKO OFFICER OF THE 70TH LINE INFANTRY REGIMENT, Presidency of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte. 27282

Cardboard barrel covered with dark blue, almost black cloth, H 15 cm at the front, 21 cm at the back. In the upper part, it is bordered with a lizard braid in gilded silver thread, H 2.5 cm. In the lower part, it is trimmed with a black patent leather bourdalou, H 2.8 cm. On each side and at the back, small cords in gilded silver trimmings connecting the bourdalou to the upper braid. Black patent leather cap, diameter 12.5 cm. Tricolor painted metal cockade, diameter 5 cm. Front plate in gilded stamped brass cut in the shape of an uncrowned imperial eagle, sinister head for the army, placed on a terrestrial globe cut with the number “70” with sparkling Jupiter spindle, H 11.7 cm, width 12 .4 cm. Round visor in black waxed leather, width 5.5 cm, green inside. Inner headdress in black patent sheepskin gilded with iron on the upper edge, topped with a blue silk headdress. At the bottom of the cap is sewn a strip of black sheepskin gilded with iron “ROUSSEL / CHAPELIER PASSEMENTIER / DUNKERQUE”. Double scarlet wool pompom, total height of the pompom 8 cm.


France.
Presidency of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte.
Good condition, oxidized trimmings, a few moth holes in the sheet and bourdalou, Third Republic cockade and pompom.