CHASSEURS À CHEVAL ADJUDENT SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27156

CHASSEURS À CHEVAL ADJUDENT SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27156

Cardboard barrel covered with a sleeve of dark sky blue cloth. 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 metal and a braid in silver trimmings mixed with madder silk. On the front of the shako, stamped and cut brass hunting horn. On each side of the barrel in the upper part, a brass aerator is fixed and in the lower part a brass lion's head intended to attach the chin strap. At the back at the top, a third brass lion's head. Visor in black waxed leather lined with black leather and bordered with a brass band. Inner headdress composed of an ocher leather headband cut with six wolf teeth with ivory silk headdress. Curb chinstrap composed of intertwined brass rings attached to a black patent leather chin strap.
Olive pompom in silver trimmings mixed with madder silk for the rank of adjutant.

France.
Third Republic.
Good condition, silver trimmings with oxidation from use, interior cover worn, box of the carcass complete but broken in the rear right part, braid split in two places.