Lot Essay
The white metal fluted spike suggests that this helmet originally belonged to the 18th Dragoons, a Mecklenburg regiment. An almost- illegible inscription on the internal headband may confirm this.
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An Imperial German Dragoon Helmet of Officer's Pattern
A pickelhaube with squared peak, white metal mounts, fluted spike, domed chinscales and morocco leather internal headband, now fitted with a Baden Griffin plate in white metal (cockades of Other Ranks' pattern, silk upper element of lining missing)
See illustration
A pickelhaube with squared peak, white metal mounts, fluted spike, domed chinscales and morocco leather internal headband, now fitted with a Baden Griffin plate in white metal (cockades of Other Ranks' pattern, silk upper element of lining missing)
See illustration
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