Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Duke of Manchester's Huntingdonshire Mounted Rifle Volunteers Helmet.
A very scarce Trooper’s leather example, circa 1860-1861, with a black leather skull with similar peaks front and back, a fluted white metal crest fitted with a white over red falling horse hair plume and frontal red shaving brush plume section, with a die-stamped white metal frontal badge, this with a Ducal coronet above script capitals 'MV', with an ornate regimental title scroll below inscribed '1st or Duke of Manchester's', with plated rose side ornaments and a white metal chin chain, lacking its leather backing, with a brown velvet headband, lacking its quilted lining, the front peak warped, the rear peak detached due to lacking its stitching, otherwise good service worn condition and very scarce £300-£400