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US Civil War, French Mle 1860 Import Infantry Shako
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: $650.00

US Civil War, French Mle 1860 Import Infantry Shako
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: $650.00

Original era manufacture. After the outbreak ofour Civil War in April of 1861, the Federal government ordered 10,000 sets of uniforms and equipment from France, to include a leather shako with brass eagle decoration.'Several Federal regiments were equipped with the Chasseur style uniforms and shakosincluding the 83rd Pennsylvania. These were generally detested by the Union soldiers and did not enjoy a long service use. Sold as surplus to Francis Bannerman at war's end.All leather construction, with a stamped brass eagle front plate, with painted decoration and a blue-white-red cockade above (colors reversed on the French cockade). The wide, thin leather sweatband is complete,and the internally mounted chinstrap remains tucked up inside the crown. Adopted in 1860 by the Imperial armyof Napoleon III,this pattern shako remained regulation until 1867 when a new, all cloth pattern was introduced. In spite of the regulation change, this pattern shako certainly did see service during the Franco-Prussian war, as we have a similar example in our own collection which has an inscribed description as being captured in Strasbourg.In addition, this was the pattern of shako worn by the French regiments sent to Mexico to bolster the ill-fated regime of Emperor Maximillian.The shako is sound, stitching is all tight and it is not crushed ormisshapen.


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