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Lot n° 112

A rare ceremonial helmet for a Cuirasser in full...

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dating: About 1940 provenance: Regno d'Italia, German silver skull with gilded mounts, brass crest with beautiful gilding, crest shaped as a lion's head with black horsehair tail, olive with crowned Savoy shield, rays surmounted by an eagle with silvered crown, charged with the monogram VE III (Victor Emmanuel III 1900-1946). Typical scaled chin-strap with round cheek-pieces featuring a star, cotton tricolour cockade and original red and white plume. Visors inside, covered in red Moroccan leather, light leather sweat-band worked in segments.