French WWI Era, Foreign Legion Field Grade Officers Kepi, Commandant (Major)
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $450.00

Original era manufacture. Fine quality, early tall style kepi in doeskin wool. Silver wire trim for the rank of Commandant, or Major. Red wool top with a sky blue wool band, silver brocade wire chinstrap. Black leather visor with a bound edge, black silk lining with a black leather sweatband decorated with a thin white silk ribbon. Looks to be some mouse nibblings on one spot of the sweatband, with a few very small moth bites in the cloth, minor staining, with some thread loosening of the silver wire trim. Otherwise a very sound old hat.