DRAGON HELMET, model 1872 modified 1874, Third Republic. 29138

DRAGON HELMET, model 1872 modified 1874, Third Republic. 29138

Bomb in one piece in sheet steel, stamped with a balancer, leveled with a hammer and polished with a brush and marked “ALEXIS GODILLOT”, size 57. It is pierced at the top with four suction cup holes (diameter 1.5 cm ).
Visor, also in sheet steel, bordered by a 1.6 mm wide copper circle placed astride its edges and fixed at the ends by a rivet. Underneath the visor in brown waxed leather.
Neck cover, also made of sheet steel, edged with a 1.6 mm wide copper crimp, placed astride.
Copper headband stamped with a flaming grenade surrounded by laurel leaves and adheres to the bomb. Its base rests on the visor and its ends are riveted to the bomb in the part hidden by the rosette of the chin strap.
Each chin strap is made up of 15 copper scales cut alternately with three or two festoons, which decrease in width from the top one, which is 3.5 cm, to the last, which is only 2 cm. The right chin strap is fitted at its end with a small riveted copper plate to which a buckle also made of copper is attached. At the end of the one on the left there is a similar plate enclosing a copper D topped with a rear counter-girth in black varnished calfskin.
The upper scale of each chinstrap is covered with a movable copper rosette, independent of the chinstrap. It is circular in shape (diameter 4.2 cm) showing four rushes in relief. Rosettes fixed to the bomb by means of a lock.
Bomb topped with a copper crest composed of two fins, a mask and a covering.
The fins, placed vertically at a distance from each other of 3.2 cm in front and 2.5 cm in the back, have the shape of a curvilinear triangle convex at its upper part and which connects with the bomb by its concave base forming a scalloped rim.
This rim is attached to the bomb by means of four round-headed copper screws (2 per fin) in a tallow drop shape which are secured inside the helmet by square copper nuts.
Fins decorated with palmettes and a net at their upper edge; the rim is decorated with water leaves, all stamped in relief.
A tin-plated sheet metal plate joins the upper edges of the fins and fixes the spacing.
Mask serving as an anterior junction to the two fins by means of welding, stamped with a Medusa head in relief. The covering, also stamped, represents the continuation of the hair of Medusa's head with intertwined serpents (length 9 cm).
Mane of black horsehair, length approximately 64 cm.
Stamped copper plume holder, H 3.2 cm, forming a socket, attached obliquely from bottom to top to the bomb, a little in front of the left chin strap, by means of two threaded rods passing through the bomb.
Inner cap in black waxed leather cut into seven wolf teeth with eyelets. Felt turban, in one piece.

France.
Third Republic.
Good to very good condition, neck cover lining missing, end of chin strap broken, headpiece worn.