A helmet for officers in the Guard Dragoon Regiment No. 23 or the Life Dragoon Regiment No. 24, with parade plume, circa 1910A privately purchased item. The black lacquered leather skull in beautiful condition with silver-plated, nickel silver fittings (partially abraded). A bar at the nape with two spherical rivets. Screw-mounted emblem with the Hessian lion between wreaths of laurel and oak. Cruciform base with a parade socket in Hessian form holding a black horsehair plume. Convex chinscales with leather underlay on geometric rosettes with silver knurled screws, below which the Reich and state cockades in metal. Broad, black leather sweatband without a silk lining. The old size "55" inside the skull. The front visor lined in green and the rear visor with red underlay. Signs of age and wear.Condition: II