Bavarian Infantry High Ranking Officer’s Picklehaube, the black leather skull with silver plated mounts, the frontal plate with a frosted finish and similar to the lions’ masks chin scale side ornaments, a State cockade in frosted silver plate and pale blue enamel above the wearer’s left side lion’s mask tooled brown leather sweat band with orange silk lining, the skull with minute surface crazing and the silk liner with some fraying, otherwise quite excellent state £800-1200