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159 - HEADGEAR. POLAND. Rare Uhlan chapska, with a white cloth crown piped and a red cloth band edged with silver braid of the Austro-Hungarian type, lower edge trimmed with astrakhan fur, a white cotton cockade with an amaranth center adorned with the crowned Polish eagle made of tassels and silver thread, the whole surmounted by two feathers, with an unbleached cotton inner lining and a leather chin strap. H: 14 cm, width: 24 cm. ABE This Austrian-style Uhlan chapska is of the type seen during the January Uprising of 1863, a Polish patriotic uprising for independence against the Russian Empire. Fought in the territories of the former Congress Kingdom and the Polish provinces annexed by Russia, it was the longest-lasting uprising of its kind in 19th-century partitioned Poland, with the final battles lasting until 1864 or even 1865.
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€800 - 1,200Sale fees
HEADGEAR. POLAND. Rare Uhlan chapska, with a white cloth crown piped and a red cloth band edged with silver braid of the Austro-Hungarian type, lower edge trimmed with astrakhan fur, a white cotton cockade with an amaranth center adorned with the crowned Polish eagle made of tassels and silver thread, the whole surmounted by two feathers, with an unbleached cotton inner lining and a leather chin strap. H: 14 cm, width: 24 cm. ABE This Austrian-style Uhlan chapska is of the type seen during the January Uprising of 1863, a Polish patriotic uprising for independence against the Russian Empire. Fought in the territories of the former Congress Kingdom and the Polish provinces annexed by Russia, it was the longest-lasting uprising of its kind in 19th-century partitioned Poland, with the final battles lasting until 1864 or even 1865.
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18th- and 19th-Century MilitariaAuction house
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