Description
the helmet with a hard leather skull with brass bands across the top and a faux leopardskin band around the cap of bleached and dyed horsehair, the original horsehair crest over a wood stem runs across the top of the cap, the leather peak is intact as is the original leather liner with faded red canvas liner bag, on the left side of the bandeau is a revolution period cockade with a slot fitted behind for the plume, the original plume is included, on a bone stem; attached is a leather and paper label of the French collection of André Thélot written in his own hand:
'This is a casque for a Chasseur a Cheval 1793 'AN II'' (Year 2 or 1793 in the revolutionary calendar)
Dimensions
21cm high