Prussia, Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Troop cuirassier helmet, model 1867. Lobster-tail helmet with eleven brass rivets, "staircase" visor, all with a slight gray patina. The perimeter of the bomb is edged with a brass snap ring. Retractable conical steel tip resting on an oval brass base, attached to the bomb with four square brass nuts and bolts. Model eagle plate attached to the bomb with 2 square brass screws and nuts and steel washers (later washers). Chinstraps with fifteen curved, leather-lined scales and movable brass rosettes held to the bomb with slotted, rounded-head iron screws and a non-through iron nut. Complete with leather fastening system and pin buckle for fastening together. Metal troop cockade embossed in the colors of Prussia, black and white, 67 mm in diameter, patterned. Complete with brown leather inner cap with 8 wolf teeth. Size 58 stamped on the right side. (Wear and tear, helmet restored in the past, missing a visor fastening rivet on the bomb on the left side, a brass visor fastening rivet replaced in the past by a flat copper rivet, missing a spike base fastening screw on the bomb, a loose plate reverse fastening screw, the white of the cockade repainted in the past, some old repaints on the green of the inner visor shape. Fairly good condition.)