National Guard Officer's Shako. Model 1848. 19th Century. France.

Made of cardboard covered with taupe-black velvet; at the top, a 2.5-cm-high silver passementerie braid of the so-called “Lézarde” style, and at the bottom, a 3.3-cm-high black velvet bourdalou.
Total height of the shako: 16 cm at the front and 20.5 cm at the back.
The crown is made of black waxed leather, 15 cm in diameter. A metal cockade stamped with a radiating sun, lacquered in the tricolor and 4 cm in diameter.
A silver-plated copper plaque, Model 1848, depicting the Gallic Rooster perched on a globe, all surmounting a bundle of flags, crossed lictor’s fasces, two clasped hands, and a ribbon bearing the inscription “RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE”
. The plaque is 12.2 cm high and 12 cm wide.
Square black leather visor, green-lacquered on the inside. Scarlet wool pompon.
Inner lining of black patent leather cut in a wolf’s-tooth pattern.
France. Model 1848. 19th century.