OFFICER'S SHAKO OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD'S FOOT HUNTERS, model 1860, Second Empire. 26853

OFFICER'S SHAKO OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD'S FOOT HUNTERS, model 1860, Second Empire. 26853

Shako Taconet entirely in black patent leather, H at the front 12 cm, H at the back 15.5 cm. Cap, diameter 13.5 cm, in black waxed leather finely embossed in relief with braiding. Upper patent leather braid, H 1.5 cm. Bourdalou in patent leather, H 2 cm. On each side, two patent leather strips form a V (width of each strip 1.5 cm). On the barrel, in the upper part in the center of the V, a black lacquered metal aerator (diameter 1 cm) is fixed. Square visor in black patent leather with black waxed interior, width at center 4.2 cm. Tricolor lacquered metal cockade embossed with a radiant sun, diameter 5 cm. Gilt brass shako plate stamped and cut in the shape of a crowned imperial eagle placed on a globe struck with a hunting horn with sparkling Jupiter spindle, H of the plate 11.5 cm, width 10 cm. Inner headdress in purple silk. Interior headband in black waxed morocco bordered at the top with an iron-gilded frieze. Plumet in mixed green and scarlet hanging rooster feathers, H 18 cm. Olive pompom in gilded silver cannetilles.

France.
Second Empire.
Very good condition, headband of the inner cap unstitched in places, visor unstitched in its center without accident.

NOTE :
The exact date of adoption of this model 1860 shako is unknown, probably around February 1860.