HUSSAR STAFF ADJUDANT SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27178

HUSSAR STAFF ADJUDANT SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27178

Leather shaft covered with a sky blue cloth sleeve. Cap and bourdalou in black patent leather. Woven braid “cul de dé” in silver trimmings striped in its center of madder silk, H 2.8 cm. Tricolor metal cockade attached to the barrel by means of a half-spherical button in gilded metal and a braid in silver trimmings mixed with madder silk. At the front of the shako, Hungarian knot in silver braid. On each side of the barrel in the upper part, a sky blue lacquered brass aerator is fixed and in the lower part a lion's head in golden brass intended to attach the chin strap. At the back at the top, a third lion's head in gilded brass. Visor in black waxed leather lined with green leather and bordered with a gilded brass bangle. Inner headdress composed of an ocher leather headband cut with six wolf teeth with ivory silk headdress, the leather part is marked with a pen “François adjudant”. Curb chinstrap composed of intertwined gold-plated brass rings.
Plumet in tricolor hanging rooster feathers, H 20 cm. Olive pompom in silver trimmings mixed with madder silk for the rank of adjutant.

France.
Third Republic.
Very good condition, silver trimmings with oxidation from use, interior cap worn in dirty silk.