"Helmet Pointed Officer Of The Duchy Of Anhalt From The 93rd Infantry Regiment, Anhalt Pickelhaube"
HELMET WITH TIP OFFICER OF THE DUCHY OF ANHALT OF THE 93rd INFANTRY REGIMENT, Anhalt Pickelhaube für einen Offizier im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 93, model 1871/1899, Second Reich. Patent leather bomb, visor strapping ring and all fittings in gilded brass, state plate in gilded brass embossed with very nice finish representing a crowned eagle with spread wings with banner carrying the motto "MIT GOTT FÜR FÜRST UND VATERLAND" (With God for the Prince and the Fatherland), within it overprinted metal plate stamped silver representing a crowned shield flitting on a radiant sun, half silver party, eagle Gules, hung, beaked and languished of gold and engraved with ten pieces of sand and gold in the crancelin Vert, broaching in a band on the whole; retaining in its talons the scepter and the globe symbol of power. Bomb pierced for positioning of the plate, the old perforations having been very properly filled in the past. Metal roundels stamped in the national colors black-white-red and in the colors of the green-green-green state. Chin straps in brown leather covered with scalloped flat scales alternating two and three brass festoons, covered at their point of attachment with a mobile rosette in golden brass, independent of the chin strap. Bomb topped with a smooth unscrewing point, beaded throat, pierced with two holes as in the regulations for the ventilation of the hairstyle, fixed on a round base riveted by four star-shaped rivets. Interior of headdress composed of a sweat band in fine fawn leather scalloped in its upper part, silk of the same shade, made of two half-hemispheres, partly disjointed. Manufacturer label inside. Good state of conservation. Germany. Second Reich.