France, Third Republic (1870-1940). - Lot 184

France, Third Republic (1870-1940). Chasseur à Cheval Officer's helmet, model 1913. Nickel-plated steel bombshell edged with a brass rim, with five suction holes. The back of the bomb is stamped with the manufacturer's logo "winged helmet with letters S H" and stamped "Breveté S.G.D.G.". The visor and helmet-cover straps are present and true to model. Gilded brass crest composed of two fins embossed with a series of 13 gadroons. Mask with palmette at the bottom and jellyfish head at the top. The braided braid is present and the mane is approximately 60 cm long. Headband stamped in gilded brass with nickel silver hunting horn on a radiant background. Gilded brass ten-scaled chinstraps cut with laurel leaves and rosettes embossed with sixteen leaves and lined with black velvet, to the model. Complete with brown basane inner cap with seven wolf's teeth. The gilded brass penholder is present. Complete. Worn. (Small traces of oxidation on the bomb, the nickel plating is blistered in places and missing, there is a hole at the top of the jellyfish head, traces of old tin soldering around the hole in the marmoset screw, the inner leather cap is detached from the bomb, the leather end of the left chinstrap is later. Fairly good condition.)