STAFF OFFICER SHAKO OF THE 1st CHASSEUR À CHEVAL REGIMENT, model 1848, Presidency of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, 1848-1852. 27001

STAFF OFFICER SHAKO OF THE 1st REGIMENT OF HORSE HUNTERS, model 1848, Second Republic, Presidency of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. 27001

Stock made of leather covered with a garance cloth sleeve, 16 cm high in the front and 21.5 cm high in the back. Black varnished leather bourdalou (height 3 cm). In the upper part, a lizard-patterned silver lace braid is sewn (height 2 cm). At the back, a silver lace braid (height 3.5 cm) with a half-bell brass button engraved with the number "1". Black varnished cowhide top, 12.5 cm in diameter. On each side of the stock, a vertically sewn silver braid.
At the front, a relief-stamped metal cockade with tricolor lacquer, 5.5 cm in diameter, held by a half-spherical brass button with the number "1" and a three-braid silver lace strap (height 11 cm, width 2.5 cm). Round-shaped black varnished leather visor, 5 cm wide with green waxed interior.
Interior leather lining cut with seven "wolf teeth", and black silk lining.
Half-spherical pompon made of silver cords, 5 cm in diameter, mounted on 3 cm thick wood, with a folded iron rod for attachment to the shako.
Tricolor cockade plumet, hanging rooster feathers, 28 cm high.

France.
Second Republic, Presidency of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.
Good condition, worn leather interior lining, partially glued visor.