SHAKO PLATE FOR THE TROOPS OF THE ROYAL GENDARMERIE OF THE SEINE, model 1817, Restoration period. 28835

SHAKO PLATE FOR THE TROOP OF THE ROYAL GENDARMERIE OF THE SEINE, model 1817, Restoration period. 28835

Made of stamped brass featuring the large Arms of France placed on a background of trophy flags, with a base bearing the inscription "ROYAL GENDARMERIE"
Height 12.7 cm, width 11.5 cm.

France.
Restoration period.
Very good condition.

NOTE:
Christian Blondieau's work "Shako plates, chapka plates, fur caps... Part 2: the fleur-de-lis, the rooster, the eagle 1814-1870" explains that "at that time, the royal gendarmerie wore a hat and a white cockade held by a cord, with the elite gendarmerie wearing a helmet. Only the gendarmerie of Corsica wore a black felt shako with a silver metal plate marked 'royal gendarmerie' on a base."
However, at the Gendarmerie Museum in Melun, there is a copper plate of the "rifleman" type of the royal guard with a base band bearing the stamped legend "royal gendarmerie." This model is attributed to the gendarmerie of the Seine.
This is a plate of which there are very few authentic examples, the vast majority being either replicas or galvanoplasties.