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Gardes Voies de Vichy helmet
Black-painted steel shell (missing), pa…

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France Gardes Voies de Vichy helmet Black-painted steel shell (missing), painted aluminum badge, brown cap and chinstrap typical of wartime production, accidents and missing parts. WW2 An extremely rare example

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France Gardes Voies de Vichy helmet Black-painted steel shell (missing), painted aluminum badge, brown cap and chinstrap typical of wartime production, accidents and missing parts. WW2 An extremely rare example

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Estim. 40 - 60 EUR

France, Campaign of France May-June 40. Set of two helmets. - Model 26 air force helmet shell. 95% factory khaki paint. Steel crest. Model 26 "armée de l'air" insignia in original khaki paint. Leather chinstrap. (Good condition). - Model 26 infantry helmet. 95% factory khaki paint, varnished later. Steel crest. Infantry roundache badge. Tan interior leather and chinstrap to model. Complete. Worn. (Minor dents on the bomb, chinstrap leather without warranty. Fairly good condition.)

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Rare Prussian Cuirassier troop helmet model 1852/67, hemispherical steel bomb with embossed rear reinforcement ring. Lobster-tail nape with brass snap ring and 11 rivets. The two-degree visor is also edged with the same visor ring, with a fine tip base held in place by four rivets (one missing). Brass mantelpiece with two holes, steel tip, brass Prussian heraldic eagle, curved scale chinstrap (15 scales) on leather settee, cylindrical chinstrap rosette, the right-hand rosette holds a serrated Prussian cockade. Bomb with slight rust foam. Black leather-covered nape, green-painted visor, black-painted bomb interior. Missing cap. Easily restorable helmet, quite rare. Used during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Condition 2

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National Guard crest helmet on horseback. Patent leather bomb. Crest with gadrooned, leafy bomb motifs (of the Maison du Roi type), laurel leaf, palm and fleur-de-lys headband, remnants of silver-plated copper scale chinstrap. Black horsehair caterpillar. As is (accidents, cap missing). Restoration period. Expert: Cabinet Jean-Claude DEY

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