Spiked Helmet Of A Prussian General Or Of An Officer Of The Ministry Of War 27557

POINTED HELMET OF A PRUSSIAN GENERAL OR AN OFFICER OF THE MINISTRY OF WAR, Preussen General / Offizier am Kriegsministerium, model 1871/1899, Second Reich. 27557 Bomb in blackened and patent leather, visor with square angles. All metal fittings in gilded brass. State plaque in gilded stamped brass, representing a crowned eagle with broad outstretched wings, holding in its claws the symbols of power, the scepter and the sword, banner deployed on the wingspan of the eagle with the motto “MIT GOTT FÜR KOENIG UND VATERLAND” (With God for King and Fatherland), on the chest star of the Order of the Black Eagle with the Prussian motto of the Order, “SUUM CUIQUE”. Latin phrase meaning “To each his own”. The idiomatic meaning being “everyone gets what they deserve”. Presence of two cockades of the type specific to officers as the rule from 1897, in metal stamped with the colors of the state of Prussia black-white-black and the national colors black-white-red. Brown leather chinstraps covered with scalloped scales alternating two and three gilded brass festoons. Upper scale of each chinstrap covered with a mobile golden rosette, independent of the chinstrap. Bomb topped with a removable fluted tip, throat of the tip, beaded, pierced with two holes for ventilation of the hairstyle, on a cross-shaped base with lanceolate ends, held by four nails in the shape of eight-pointed stars . Reverse of the green coated canvas visor; reverse of the neck cover in red coated canvas. Soft dark brown leather sweatband with scalloped top edge. Silk of the two inner sections of the headdress in brown silk. At the bottom of the bomb, polychrome paper label presenting the royal median coat of arms of Prussia here in their 1873 configuration, with the provincial and territorial coat of arms of the Prussian state. Germany. Second Reich. Copy of late production. Interior flaps of the hairstyle partially unstitched. Otherwise good to very good state of conservation.