拍品 132
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A Mitre Cap of the Prussian Guard
A Mitre Cap of the Prussian Guard

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A Mitre Cap of the Prussian Guard

A rare pre-1894 Grenadier cap of the Garde Regiment zu Fuss Nr 1, with brass front-plate embossed with Crown and Star of the Black Eagle and mounted with metal scroll inscribed SEMPER TALIS, red cloth cap with white band, the seams trimmed with white braid, terminating in a black/white worsted tassel at top, brass chinscales, secured by flat brass grenades, a similar grenade on the band at the rear (tassel slightly defective)

拍品专文

The 1st Garde Grenadiers and the 1st Garde Regiment of Foot (the only German military units to wear the mitre cap) originally both had caps of this pattern, the latter regiment being distinguished by the SEMPER TALIS scroll. In 1894, the 1st Foot Guards were issued with a new pattern mitre-cap with an embossed white metal front plate. Their discarded brass-fronted caps were reissued, with the scrolls removed, to the 1st Garde Grenadiers.