A helmet for Hessian infantry officers, circa 1910Black lacquered skull of stiff substitute material (slightly sunken), gilt fittings of non-ferrous metal, rear spine. Screw-mounted officer's helmet plate with the Hessian lion between laurel and oak leaves. Cruciform base with four domed rivets and removable spike of Hessian form. Leather-lined chinscales on push-through rosettes, both officer's cockades of lacquered metal. Ochre silk rep lining (detached from the edge at the brow), brown leather sweatband. With officer's field grey helmet cover in fine condition. In helmet case (straps incomplete). Partially slightly damaged, traces of use and age. Rare.Condition: II