France, Louis-Philippe (1830-1848). - Lot 173

France, Louis-Philippe (1830-1848). Dragon troop helmet model 1830. Minerva-shaped brass bomb with minor dents and extensive tin repairs on the right side, unmarked and unstamped on the back. Brass visor and helmet cover lined with basanes (later inserts) and edged around the perimeter with a brass ruffle. Brass band embossed with a flaming bomb framed by laurel and oak branches. Embossed brass crest, the mask stamped with a palmette surmounted by a jellyfish head, the fins embossed with thirteen gadroons of decreasing shape, highlighted with pearls and framed with buttons. The fin-holder is present with a black horsehair puff. Scarlet horsehair mane with brush chenille, later. The brass pen holder on the left side of the bomb is present. Pair of chinstraps with intertwined brass "8" curb chains mounted on brown leather chinstraps (later leathers) and their brass radiating center rosettes. Inner leather cap cut into wolf's teeth, later. H. 29 cm (without fin-holder and mane). (Older helmet restored, right side of bomb repaired with tin, scarlet horsehair brush and mane, leather inner cap and chinstrap leathers are reproductions. Fairly good condition.)