HUSSAR OFFICER'S SHAKO FOR CAMPAIGN DRESS, Second Empire. 27015-2
Cardboard barrel and cap entirely covered with black oilcloth, H at the front 15 cm, H at the back 19 cm. Cap diameter 14 cm. Square visor with rounded corners, in black patent leather and lined with green morocco, width 5 cm, with black patent leather band folded over saddle and sewn on the outer edge; at the level of the shaft, it is surmounted by a flat gilded silver braid; on the right side, burnished metal button (probably to attach a canvas neck cover). Elliptical pompom in dark green wool thistle, H 7 cm, width 5 cm. Inner cap in black patent leather cut into seven wolf teeth. Size handwritten in ink at the bottom of the barrel and on one interior side: 4 1/2.
France.
Second Empire.
Very good state.
Reference :
27015-2