A VERY RARE HELM FOR A GENERAL OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF BADEN, CIRCA 1865-70
with leather skull fitted with neck-guard and angular peak, the latter pieces lacquered red and green respectively on the inside, gilt-brass mounts including fluted removable spike on a cruciform base retained by four screws with gilt stellate heads, leather-backed flat chinscales, Baden state cockade carried on the right, General's pre-1871 pattern plate in the form of the Star of the Baden House Order of Fidelity, in silver, silver-gilt and enamels, original fifteen-tongue black morocco leather lining with no provision for an inner lining, bearing the retailer's trade label of M.Lautermilch of Carlsruhe on the inside, and in its original carrying case lined in chamois
29 cm; 11 3/8 in

For an illustrated account of this very rare model of helmet and of the successive model of 1871, see Hilsenbeck 2004, pp.54-6.