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BRIGADIER UNIFORM OF THE 9TH REGIMENT OF DRAGONS, Second Empire. 26972

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BRIGADIER UNIFORM OF THE 9TH REGIMENT OF DRAGONS, Second Empire. 26972

HELMET of the 9th REGIMENT, model of November 20, 1858
A "yellow copper" brass bomb according to the regulations, in one piece stamped with a pendulum and finished with a hammer. Four suction cup holes are drilled in the bomb. at the rear the bomb is dated 1871 “1871”, registered “614”, assigned to the 9th regiment “9D”. Turban in two pieces of half-fed cowhide, assembled front and back with a seam with large crossed stitches. The turban is assembled with the bomb by means of four softened flat head rivets, with counter-rivet washers, which pass through both. Brass visor, surrounded by a copper band straddling the outer edge. This circle (height on each side 8 millimeters) is joined to the visor by a red copper rivet at each end. It is lined below with a green sheepskin glued and caught in the crimp of the border circle. Width of the visor in the middle 5.5 cm. Brass neck cover with copper rim like the visor, lined with glued black sheepskin. Headband is of sea cow, dyed in tawny color and speckled in black, to imitate tiger skin (this general dyeing in tawny yellow before speckling is essential, not only to the more complete imitation of fur); it is cut so as to fit exactly from the top under the molding of the bomb and to descend onto the visor and the neck cover of which it leaves only about a quarter visible. At each end, this strip is garnished on the inside with a small copper blade pierced with four holes with metal eyelets. On each side, two washers, one lower, the other outer, pierced in the center and joined by a metal eyelet, are adjusted to the place where the rod of the chinstraps passes. Two chinstraps, each made up of fourteen flat cover rings, assembled in a curb chain, decreasing in size. These rings are mounted using a fine brass wire, the points of which are embedded underneath in the leather, on a core of strong black patent leather, finished with a black patent calfskin strap and a bar buckle carrying barb. The two upper rings of the chain, which present only part of their circumference, are integral with a copper rosette 53 millimeters in diameter, bordered by a plain rush and embossed in relief with 16 laurel leaves arranged in rays around a hole drilled in the center. Each chin strap attaches to the helmet with a copper screw with a half-spherical head. Crest placed on the bomb, from front to back; it is made of yellow copper and composed of two fins, a mask and a cover. The fins have a concave base, which forms a scalloped edge pierced with two holes for copper screws, with a round tallow drop head, which are secured inside the bomb by nuts. They are decorated with palmettes and a garland at their upper edge. The rim is decorated with water leaves, all stamped in relief. The mask serves as an anterior junction for the two fins. It is stamped with a head of Medusa in strong relief, topped with a small oak crown and at the bottom, above the base of the mask, is a pomegranate in bas-relief. A copper screw, at the bottom of the lamp base. The copper covering is stamped with a bas-relief mat. The crest ornament consists of a lower socket, a lens decorated with palmettes in relief and an upper socket, also decorated with palmettes. A black horsehair puff. A mane of black dyed horsehair, length of approximately 56 cm. A brass plume holder decorated with branches of foliage. Interior trim, consists of a headdress in strong black sheepskin, cut with 10 wolf teeth, the tips of the teeth garnished with metal eyelets.
Very good state.

BRIGADIER HABIT "KURTKA" OF THE 9TH DRAGON REGIMENT
Kurtka in light green cloth buttoning straight at the front with seven horn and bone buttons, madder piped, straight collar in green piped madder cloth closing with a metal hook, straight facings in light green piped madder cloth, facing tabs in light green piped madder sheet garnished with three small module uniform buttons, diameter 1.7 cm, in brass stamped in relief with the number “9”. Double chevron madder braid with light green stripe in the middle sewn above each facing.Plastron in madder cloth lined with light green cloth closing with fourteen small uniform buttons measuring 1.7 cm in diameter, forming three points on either side on each side in the upper part with point in the right center closing with a hook metallic. Belt tab in light green piped madder cloth with small module button. Rolled back in green madder piped cloth garnished in each corner with a pomegranate cut and sewn in scarlet madder cloth on a light green background, false vertical pockets forming three points, piped madder, garnished in each point with a large module uniform button, diameter 2.2 cm. Two large module buttons are attached at the waist. Epaulet straps in madder cloth mounted on light green cloth. Interior lining in ecru canvas with black ink marking of the 9th Dragoon regiment “9th. Drag”, registered “52”, dated 2nd quarter 1865 “2nd. 65”.
Madder wool shoulder pads lined with madder cloth.
Very good state.

GIBERNE OF THE 2nd REGIMENT OF DRAGONS model of October 7, 1845 taken over by the regulations of December 20, 1858
It consists of a box, a tab, a capsule bag and a martingale.
The box is made from a single piece of stretched, blackened and waxed cowhide, bent at right angles with straight edges, and forming the front, bottom and back of the box. The sides of the box are in brass, rectangular in shape, stamped “DELACHAUSSÉE”, with slightly rounded corners, width 5 cm, height 8.5 cm, with a rim of 1.6 cm on the two long sides and on one of the short ones. . 2 cm from this upper edge and in the middle is the center of a hole through which a copper pin passes, with a round head, flattened on the outside and stopped on the inside by a nut. To this pin is attached the eye of a copper wire yoke, approximately semi-circular in shape from below. Branch size 6 mm; height, not including the eye, 4.5 cm; diameter, 5.5 cm for dragons and spearmen, 4 cm for others. In the direction of this diameter a copper bar, 3 mm thick, crosses the two branches and is firmly riveted there, it is wrapped in a welded copper roller; a similar roller bar is riveted parallel below the first, so as to leave 1 cm of space between the two rollers. Inside the box, two cowhide partitions, 4 mm thick, divide it into three compartments, including two large ones for cartridges measuring 7 cm long by 4.5 cm wide in the work, and a small one. in the middle, 2 cm to accommodate the essentials and the ball puller. The tab is also in cowhide, height 12 cm, width at the top 21 cm, width at the bottom 22 cm, half-fed and blackened, it is folded at right angles on the back and slightly obtuse on the front. This front edge is slightly convex, to release the bag. Behind, a 2.5 cm flap assembles the tab with the box using two seams. The two upper screws of the shoe pass through this flap before engaging in the edge of the shoe and into the wood. A firm cowhide corner is sewn at each end, between the folds of the tab, to prevent water from entering the box. These dimensions allow the tab to open easily by passing between the two yokes of the box. Under the tab is sewn, 3.5 cm from the edge, a cow counter-sob, 11 cm by 2.5 cm wide, pierced with a buttonhole which attaches to a copper grooved button, riveted under the bottom of the box. The capsule bag is made of small blackened cowhide, with an interior collar of sheepskin trimmed with its hair. It is 12.5 cm wide by 8 cm high; its opening is covered by a small flap on which a bone button is fixed to stop a small counter-strap, sewn onto the bag. A martingale, made of small blackened cowhide, length 15 cm (the regulations provide for 14 cm) by 2.5 cm, is fitted to the back of the box 1 cm above its lower fold, using a copper button , whose tail is riveted inside the box. It is used to attach the pouch to clothing using a buttonhole. Back of the tab is hot stamped with the number “33/588” “473/883”, dated 1859 “59” “1859”, assigned to the 2nd dragoon regiment “2eD”.
The pouch holder, also called a banderolle, consists of a single strip of bleached buffalo, 5 cm wide; length approximately 1.45 m for the 2nd size provided for by the regulations. On the strong side of the buffalo, cut circularly, is fixed by 3 rivets with counter-rivets, a copper fleuron whose diameter is cut into a brace. 52 cm from this end, a copper grenade is fixed, total height 65 cm, diameter of the bomb 3 cm, flame development 4.5 cm, which is stopped by two tenons which cross the strip and in which passes a small strap. At the bottom of the bomb is a small ring where a brass chain (length 20 cm, thickness 3 mm) is attached to a ring at the top of the grenade flame. An oval buckle, known as a half-baguette, with a yoke in the middle and a pin at the top (diameter at the yoke 6.2 cm, same as vertical 7 cm; width of the wand 9 mm), serves to join the two ends of the strip, after it has passed through the two yokes of the cartridge case between their two rollers. A copper slide (apparent width 9 mm and 8 mm for hunters and hussars), secures the floating end, below the loop 5 cm. This slide is permanently riveted to the floating end. A small buffalo tab, pierced with a buttonhole trimmed on the inside edges, is sewn where the band is on the epaulette and turned towards the collar, it attaches to the epaulet button, to prevent the band to fall from the shoulder or slide in the direction of its length when passing the pouch forward or throwing it back (total length 5 cm; width 2.5 cm; protrusion outside the band 3 cm).
The body of the shoulder pad goes over the banner and attaches to the same button. Hot stamped on the inside, registered “595”, dated 1859 “59”, assigned to the 4th dragoon regiment “4D”, and marked “SH”.
Very good state.

BELT OF THE 3rd REGIMENT OF DRAGONS model of October 7, 1845 taken up by the regulations of December 20, 1858
In plain white buffalo without any rush or stitching, it consists of 1st a belt strip, width 6 cm; length for size 3º of 87 cm. The ends are cut squarely. The one in front, the strong side of the buffalo, is passed twice through the opening of a copper yoke, where it is stopped by a quadrangular bar called a movable lock on the yoke and which allows the strip to be lengthened or shortened as desired. belt, without any barb and by the sole pressure of the lock. The end of the strip is folded back about 2.5 cm and sewn to form a bead which prevents it from coming out of the screed. The other end of the strip is also passed twice through the trigger guard of the plate. Near the front end at 20 cm (3rd size), is a first seam 3.5 cm wide and occupying the entire width of the strip, inside which it is sewn, by two seams at the top and by two others at the bottom. bottom, a second is sewn at 39cm. It supports the copper D which carries the front bail; it is folded below 3 cm after having embraced the D which in its upper part is flush with the bottom of the band. This D has a width of 5 cm and a height of 2 cm. It is approximately 5 mm thick and carries a saber hook of the same brass wire. Length of the hook frame 4 cm, the same of the spout 5 cm. The small bail, length 38 cm, width 2.5 cm. The large bail, length of the bail 91 cm, width 3 cm. They have 2 buttonholes at each end 5 cm apart. Double copper buttons (diameter 1.5 cm) engage in these buttonholes two by two to attach the bails to the belt and the sabre. The belt is hot-stamped on the inside of the number “2233”, re-registered “680”, dated “1854”, assigned to the 3rd regiment “3e Drag”.
Copper plate, is lightly stamped in relief with a pomegranate. It is almost square, with cut sides and softened chamfered edges. Towards its right edge, looking at it from the inside, a strong copper trigger guard is welded, and on the other edge a clip reused at its base. This clip fills the entire length of the clip D attached to the other end of the strip. Height 7.5 cm, width 8.5 cm, with cut corners.
Very good state

France.
Second Empire.
Reference : 26972
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