29th Jun, 2022 12:00
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria
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A FRENCH CAVALRY HELMET AND HELMET FITTINGS
A FRENCH CAVALRY HELMET AND HELMET FITTINGS
comprising an early 20th Century steel helmet with brass laurel-leaf front plate bearing a grenade, brass binding to edges and a plume-socket on the left hand side. Seven-tongue leather lining. Now lacking its decorative brass comb and chinscales. Together with a brass Medusa-face helmet-comb of similar pattern, and anothe comb with dragon decoration to sides; a rayed brass frontal plate (now flattened), probably for a bearskin cap; a lion's head finial for a British 1834 Pattern dragoon helmet; and a pair of chin scales for a German officer's pickelhaube
(6)
Provenance David Jeffcoat (1945 - 2020)
Sold for £40
A FRENCH CAVALRY HELMET AND HELMET FITTINGS
comprising an early 20th Century steel helmet with brass laurel-leaf front plate bearing a grenade, brass binding to edges and a plume-socket on the left hand side. Seven-tongue leather lining. Now lacking its decorative brass comb and chinscales. Together with a brass Medusa-face helmet-comb of similar pattern, and anothe comb with dragon decoration to sides; a rayed brass frontal plate (now flattened), probably for a bearskin cap; a lion's head finial for a British 1834 Pattern dragoon helmet; and a pair of chin scales for a German officer's pickelhaube
(6)
Provenance David Jeffcoat (1945 - 2020)
Auction: Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 29th Jun, 2022
