Lot 5606

Description

Highland Light Infantry officer's helmet, c1890s, dark green cloth covered helmet with spike at top and roses at each corner of the top piece, silvered rosettes at each side for nickel and velvet backed chinstrap, unit helmet plate (QVC), leather sweatband with narrow silk piece above, at top of underside of helmet maker's label, 'Gardiner & Co/Glasgow & London', in a japanned storage tin. Tin with rust, very good, helmet good very fine, helmet plate extremely fine.