Helmet and breastplate for a cuirassier regiment, model 1872 modified in 1874, Third Republic.
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HELMET AND BREASTPLATE OF A CUIRASSIER TROOPER, MODEL 1872 MODIFIED 1874, THIRD REPUBLIC.
HELMET
Helmet entirely made of steel.
It consists of:
Bowl, made of cast and stamped steel, pierced at the top with four vent holes. Stamped by the manufacturer "F P V & Cie" size "56", marked for the 5th Cuirassiers "5C", dated "1873".
Visor (width 5 cm) and neck guard bordered with an 8 mm wide brass strip placed over its edges. Underside of visor covered with brown waxed leather, underside of neck guard missing.
The bowl, made in a single stamped piece, is stamped at the back with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" (oxidation on the bowl).
Neck guard composed of a circular band on its flat surface, welded under the rear edge of the extending band, with three golden brass nails with hemispherical heads riveted inside; a second concave band, forming a gorge, with rounded corners and welded inside the first band, bordered by a copper setting placed over it.
Bandeau, in brass, stamped with a flaming grenade, surrounded by laurel leaves, adhering to the bowl. Its base rests on the visor, and its ends are riveted to the bowl in the part concealed by the rosette of the chinstrap.
Each chinstrap is made up of 15 copper scales alternately cut into three or two festoons decreasing in width, attached by flattened wire staples on a leather core lined with black sheepskin. The right chinstrap is fitted at its end with a small copper plate riveted, to which a buckle also in copper is attached. At the end of the left chinstrap, there is a similar plate with a copper D fitting, adorned with a black varnished calf leather counter-strap.
The upper scale of each chinstrap is covered with a circular copper rosette, measuring 4.3 cm in diameter, featuring four relief ridges.
The bowl is topped with a copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins adorned with palmettes and a line at their upper edge; the edge is ornamented with water leaves, all stamped in relief.
A tin plate joins the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, acting as the anterior junction of the two fins through a weld, is stamped with a raised head of Medusa. The covering, also stamped, represents the continuation of the Medusa head's hair with intertwined snakes.
Black horsehair mane about 57 cm long.
Brass plume holder, stamped, height 3.5 cm, forming a socket, fixed obliquely from bottom to top on the bowl, slightly ahead of the left chinstrap, using two threaded rods passing through the bowl.
The worn interior lining consists of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin coif with 7 wolf teeth.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens formed by two stamped shells of flowers and palmettes. Attached to the front of the crest and supporting a scarlet tuft of horsehair.
Very good state of preservation, some pitting on the bowl, missing the nut of the mane attachment screw.
France.
Third Republic.
TROOPER'S CUIRASS OF CUIRASSIER, MODEL 1855 MODIFIED 1891, THIRD REPUBLIC.
Made of cast steel, oil-quenched and blue annealed on sand.
Curved shape at the waist, flared base; the front of the breastplate has an accentuated ridge, and the backplate has a pronounced ridge. The breastplate is adorned with 4 brass rivets, and the backplate with 6.
Each of the two straps has a body made of black cowhide leather, adorned with two brass chains; the body is terminated by a brass buttonhole plate with a heart-shaped leather tab; the strap holder is made of brass with 3 rivets. The shoulder-pieces have subsequently been adorned with scarlet felt. On one shoulder-piece, a Third Republic Legion of Honor Knight star has been attached, it is in poor condition.
Brown leather belt with brass buckle.
Markings on the breastplate "Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault September 1892, 2nd size extra width no. 15661", backplate similarly marked as the breastplate. Both the breastplate and backplate are inscribed "1899".
Perfect condition.
France.
Third Republic.
HELMET
Helmet entirely made of steel.
It consists of:
Bowl, made of cast and stamped steel, pierced at the top with four vent holes. Stamped by the manufacturer "F P V & Cie" size "56", marked for the 5th Cuirassiers "5C", dated "1873".
Visor (width 5 cm) and neck guard bordered with an 8 mm wide brass strip placed over its edges. Underside of visor covered with brown waxed leather, underside of neck guard missing.
The bowl, made in a single stamped piece, is stamped at the back with the manufacturer "GODILLOT" (oxidation on the bowl).
Neck guard composed of a circular band on its flat surface, welded under the rear edge of the extending band, with three golden brass nails with hemispherical heads riveted inside; a second concave band, forming a gorge, with rounded corners and welded inside the first band, bordered by a copper setting placed over it.
Bandeau, in brass, stamped with a flaming grenade, surrounded by laurel leaves, adhering to the bowl. Its base rests on the visor, and its ends are riveted to the bowl in the part concealed by the rosette of the chinstrap.
Each chinstrap is made up of 15 copper scales alternately cut into three or two festoons decreasing in width, attached by flattened wire staples on a leather core lined with black sheepskin. The right chinstrap is fitted at its end with a small copper plate riveted, to which a buckle also in copper is attached. At the end of the left chinstrap, there is a similar plate with a copper D fitting, adorned with a black varnished calf leather counter-strap.
The upper scale of each chinstrap is covered with a circular copper rosette, measuring 4.3 cm in diameter, featuring four relief ridges.
The bowl is topped with a copper crest composed of two fins, a mask, and a covering.
Fins adorned with palmettes and a line at their upper edge; the edge is ornamented with water leaves, all stamped in relief.
A tin plate joins the upper edges of the fins, fixing their spacing.
The mask, acting as the anterior junction of the two fins through a weld, is stamped with a raised head of Medusa. The covering, also stamped, represents the continuation of the Medusa head's hair with intertwined snakes.
Black horsehair mane about 57 cm long.
Brass plume holder, stamped, height 3.5 cm, forming a socket, fixed obliquely from bottom to top on the bowl, slightly ahead of the left chinstrap, using two threaded rods passing through the bowl.
The worn interior lining consists of a leather turban and a brown sheepskin coif with 7 wolf teeth.
Crest adorned with a socket and a lens formed by two stamped shells of flowers and palmettes. Attached to the front of the crest and supporting a scarlet tuft of horsehair.
Very good state of preservation, some pitting on the bowl, missing the nut of the mane attachment screw.
France.
Third Republic.
TROOPER'S CUIRASS OF CUIRASSIER, MODEL 1855 MODIFIED 1891, THIRD REPUBLIC.
Made of cast steel, oil-quenched and blue annealed on sand.
Curved shape at the waist, flared base; the front of the breastplate has an accentuated ridge, and the backplate has a pronounced ridge. The breastplate is adorned with 4 brass rivets, and the backplate with 6.
Each of the two straps has a body made of black cowhide leather, adorned with two brass chains; the body is terminated by a brass buttonhole plate with a heart-shaped leather tab; the strap holder is made of brass with 3 rivets. The shoulder-pieces have subsequently been adorned with scarlet felt. On one shoulder-piece, a Third Republic Legion of Honor Knight star has been attached, it is in poor condition.
Brown leather belt with brass buckle.
Markings on the breastplate "Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault September 1892, 2nd size extra width no. 15661", backplate similarly marked as the breastplate. Both the breastplate and backplate are inscribed "1899".
Perfect condition.
France.
Third Republic.
Reference :
11345
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