Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Prussian Hussars Busby, an other ranks black seal skin pattern, brass top scroll and chin scales present the front with additional white metal badge bearing the crowned Mecklenburg arms, short corded ‘cap-lines’ in crown, leather sweat band present, now virtually bald and without frontal cockade or busby bag;; German cloth mutz of mid blue cloth with scarlet cloth piping to the crown and two similar bands around the body, various silvered stampings to the waxed cloth lining indicate it is post 1926, chin strap missing stiffened sweat band areas fractured, cloth sound; a mid 19th century continental black leather military helmet, a brass trim around the whole of the base, four brass cross -over strengthening bars traverse the skull, this mounted with a shallow blackened white metal fore and aft crest which supports a corresponding black horse hair crest, ornate brass lion’s mask side ornaments, one side only of the leather chin strap present, the skull completely crushed and torn at one side, internal indications of recent crude restoration; 26th Russian Imperial Infantry, a crimean period other ranks helmet plate standard brass eagle back plate with pinned through shiels section bearing the white metal numerals ‘26’, slight frontal wear and numerous solder bases to the rear (4) £80-120