STATT CHASSEUR À CHEVAL OFFICER'S SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27994

STATT CHASSEUR À CHEVAL OFFICER'S SHAKO, model 1874, Third Republic. 27994

In cardboard covered with sky blue cloth, bordered on the upper part with a braid 2.8 cm high, woven with Hungarian stitch called “lizard braid” in silver trimmings; bourdalou in black patent leather; hunting horn, symbol of the weapon, in gilded brass, H 2.7 cm, width 4.8 cm. Tinplate cockade embossed with a radiant sun, tricolor lacquered, on which is fixed a double-stranded square braid in silver trimmings held by a smooth golden half-spherical button. On the sides, steel vents painted in the color of the bottom sheet.
Chin strap with gold brass curb chain lined with black velvet; on the sides and back of the hairstyle, at the level of the braid and the bourdalous, three lion heads in gold metal help to hold the chin strap; round-shaped visor, black patent leather top surrounded by a gold-plated brass band folded astride the outer edge, width of the visor 4.5 cm; under visor in green waxed leather.
Inner headdress composed of a black patent leather headband decorated with a gold frieze at the top. Interior of headdress in fine ivory canvas. Black patent leather chin strap attached to the inside of the frame using two half-bell brass buttons.
Plumet in hanging rooster feathers, H 20 cm, dyed blue, mounted on a steel wire folded in two with an olive pompom in silver cannetilles.

France.
Third Republic.
Very good condition, slightly oxidized silver trimmings, very slightly insolated plume.