Baden Infantry Officers Pickelhaube

Baden Infantry Officer Model 1897. All officer quality construction. Black lacquered leather helmet body with brass gilded trim. The helmet body has nice form and firm stitching. Exterior lacquer is dulled with age but is complete with some minor crazing. No extra holes in the helmet body. The interior has officer quality soft leather headliner and white silk headliner (dirty but complete). Interior visors are lined with Green and Red for Officers. The Back visor is slightly misshaped and needs some TLC.

The Fire gilded trim is also officer quality. The spike base has the pearl ring and removable spike. The base is held to helmet body with brass/gilt stars retainers that are screw type (note the one star is a replacement). The frontplate is the gilded Baden Griffin that has screw back retainers. Flat gilt chinscales on rosettes. Officer style 2 piece Reichs cockade and furled non-serrated Baden cockade. The helmet is uncleaned and never polished it retains its original fire gilting. A nice representative of a Baden infantry Officers.