DRAGON OFFICER HELMET, model 1825 modified 1830, July Monarchy. 27255-1
Helmet entirely in gilded brass. H 36 cm.
Bomb, H 17 cm, stamped in two parts welded on its top and pierced with three suction cup holes.
Bandeau, H 11 cm apparent, stamped on a sandblasted background with a flaming bomb framed by laurel and oak branches.
Visor in gilded brass (6.2 cm in the center) lined with a green waxed basane and neck cover in gilded brass lined with black basane, each bordered with a gold-plated brass bangle folded as a horse (7.6 mm) on the outer edge.
Crest composed of a mask and two fins. Mask, width 4.2 cm, H 11 cm, stamped in the lower part with a palmette and a jellyfish head in the upper part on a sandblasted background, fixed in the lower part by a truncated cone-head screw in gilded brass; each fin (H 9.5 cm) is struck on a sandblasted background with a decreasing series of 13 gadroons framed with pearls and separated by florets and acanthus leaves; their base is folded outside, cut into festoons and fixed to the bomb using 4 gilded brass screws with frustoconical heads.
Egret holder composed of an olive (diameter 6.2 cm, thickness 2.7 cm) decorated on a sandblasted background with palmettes, and a socket (diameter 2.5 cm, H 3.9 cm) with laurel branches and palmettes on a sandblasted background, at the base of the socket is placed a scalloped disc decorated with palmettes; black horsehair puff (H 6.5 cm).
Feather holder (H 4.8 cm) engraved on the corners and decorated in the upper part with a crown of foliage. It has a tubular shape decreasing towards the bottom with a square section.
Gilded brass chinstraps in the shape of a chiseled intertwined 8 (the highest is 4.6 cm and the lowest is 1.9 cm) mounted on a metal chin strap covered in black velvet; rosette (diameter 5.7 cm) stamped with a radiant sun on a sandblasted background, fixed to the bomb using a chiseled screw.
Mane of black horsehair (H 5.5 cm), brush-shaped ending in a floating tail with an apparent length of approximately 53 cm.
Inner cap in black waxed leather with iron-gilded edges, cut into eight wolf teeth.
France.
July Monarchy.
Perfect condition, close to new, two small bomb dents, interior headdress worn with a missing wolf tooth, end of the sole of the mane broken at the rear fixing screw.
Reference :
27255-1