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A Fine cuirassier trooper's helmet, from the first years of the Italian Republic dating: 1950-60 provenance: Italian Republic , German silver skull, with gilt brass crest featuring typical raised decoration, olive-shaped finial with large star. Complete with lion's face with long black mane. Front frieze shaped as trophy-of-arms (early republican type) of silvered metal; front ray pattern and branches also gilt, like the scale chin-straps and star-shaped ear cheek-pieces. Tricolour cotton cockade complete plume-holder with original plume. The skull has numerous holes behind the cheek-pieces, which witness the reuse of an earlier helmet adapted during the transition from monarchy to republic. Interior with red cloth-covered visors and a (later) leather cap. Complete with original wooden case with brass mounts.
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