Officer's chapska of the 4th regiment of lancers, model 1854 - Lot 85

Officer's chapska of the 4th regiment of lancers, model 1854, Second Empire. Black leather bombshell, dark blue drapery ensign, gathered sheet metal tricolor cockade, silver-plated canetille trimmings with chevron decoration and silver brackets highlighting the edge of the plate and crossing at the top with brass escutcheons. Gilded copper faceplate embossed with a radiating sun and the number "4" in silver-plated metal. Chinstraps with gilded brass leonine mask, curb chain chinstraps on leather settee (troop?). Leather visor with brass snap ring. No inner cap Hemispherical pompom mounted on a wooden core covered with a silver canetille thread wrap, scarlet horsehair plumet drooping with olive pompon covered with a silver cordonnet (Condition 2+).