Artillery Staff Officer's Shako, Model 1830, July Monarchy.

SHAKO OF ARTILLERY STAFF OFFICER, model 1830, July Monarchy. 29145 Cardboard body covered with black silk fabric, H 22.5 cm, edged with a 2.7 cm woven gold lizard braid at the top and a 2.5 cm black velvet bourdalou at the bottom. Black varnished cap, diameter 23 cm. Black waxed leather visor on the outside and green on the inside, 6 cm. Metal cockade embossed in relief with a tricolor lacquered radiant sun, diameter 7 cm. Plate type 1830 in gilded brass stamped in relief with a rooster surrounded by an oak branch and a laurel branch on a background of a bundle of flags, the rooster is placed on a shield whose center is decorated with two crossed cannons with a flaming bomb in the upper part and a pile of cannonballs in the lower part, beaded framing rod. H of the plate 14 cm, width 11 cm. Chinstraps composed of a leather chin strap covered with a fine black fabric and covered with a series of fifteen scales in stamped gilded brass and cut into four festoons; and a round rosette stamped in its center with a flaming bomb on a sandblasted background, bordered by a protruding molding (diameter 4 cm). Length of the chinstrap 21.5 cm. Inner cap in black waxed sheepskin cut into twelve wolf teeth. At the bottom of the cap, a white label printed in black with Masonic symbols, the Catholic cross, the face of the radiant sun, the face of the radiant moon, ... is stuck: "H CHAMPIN / Md Chapelier, / Place St George / n°5, / À LYON.". Flame pompom in daffodil wool topped with a scarlet flame with ring and ring in gold cannetilles threads, diameter of the pompom 6.5 cm, total H with the flame 18 cm. France. July Monarchy. Perfect condition, braid with slight oxidation from use.