GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Flügel-Adjutant (aide-de-camp) spiked helm
GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Officer’s spiked helmet in full dress uniform of the 5th Garde-Regiment zu Fuss, patent leather helmet, silver-plated brass fittings, large frontal eagle of the Guard with an enameled center and the motto "SUM CUIQUE," flat-scale chinstraps in gilded brass with silver-plated studs, Reich and Prussian cockades, full dress hairbrush made of white yak hair, satin lining (showing wear), brown leather headband, not re-pierced. The stars securing the peak are silver; they should be gold and must have been replaced. Slight dent in the helmet at the junction of the rear band and the base of the peak; small tear in the leather along the rear edge. BE
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GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Officer’s spiked helmet in full dress uniform of the 5th Garde-Regiment zu Fuss, patent leather helmet, silver-plated brass fittings, large frontal eagle of the Guard with an enameled center and the motto "SUM CUIQUE," flat-scale chinstraps in gilded brass with silver-plated studs, Reich and Prussian cockades, full dress hairbrush made of white yak hair, satin lining (showing wear), brown leather headband, not re-pierced. The stars securing the peak are silver; they should be gold and must have been replaced. Slight dent in the helmet at the junction of the rear band and the base of the peak; small tear in the leather along the rear edge. BE