CHASSEUR À CHEVAL OFFICER'S SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27994

CHASSEUR À CHEVAL OFFICER'S SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27994

In cardboard covered with sky blue cloth, bordered on the upper part with a braid 2.8 cm high, woven with Hungarian stitch called “lizard braid” in silver trimmings; bourdalou in black patent leather; hunting horn, symbol of the weapon, in gilded brass, H 3 cm, width 5 cm. Tinplate cockade embossed with a radiant sun, tricolor lacquered, on which is fixed a double-strand square braid in silver trimmings held by a smooth gold half-spherical button. On the sides, tombac copper vents painted in the color of the bottom sheet.
Chin strap with gold brass curb chain lined with black velvet; on the sides and back of the hairstyle, at the level of the braid and the bourdalous, three lion heads in gold metal help to hold the chin strap; round visor, black patent leather top surrounded by a gold-plated brass band folded astride the outer edge, width of the visor 5 cm; under visor in brown waxed leather.
Inner headdress in iron-gilded brown sheepskin cut into six wolf teeth, inside headdress in sky blue silk.
Spherical pompom in silver trimmings with small cord for junior officers.

France.
Third Republic.
Good condition, a few moth holes in the sheet, oxidation from use on the trimmings and the pompom, worn interior cover.