POLICE HAT TROOP OF GUIDES OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD, model 1860 with gusset, Second Empire. 29142
Hat body in madder cloth with golden yellow braid piping placed on the vertical seams and in the middle of the faces. These pipings come together on the right side to form a point whose apex reaches the bottom of the hat finished with a fringed pompom in golden yellow wool. Two elliptical-shaped side flaps, in dark green cloth piped with madder and highlighted with a golden yellow soutache; these two flaps are sewn to the cap in the upper part in the middle, H 6.5 cm on the right and H 8.5 cm on the left.
On the front and back, in the curvilinear angle which outlines the recess of the two flaps, the soutache is sewn in the shape of a Hungarian knot. Inner cover in burgundy waxed leather.
Total height of the hat 14 cm.
France.
Second Empire.
Good condition.
Reference :
29142