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A Bavarian Reserve Artillery Officer with parade plume. Besides musicians these were the only units to wear red busches.  This trichter is a good reproduction.  I am told the hair is old but I am skeptical. Note that the spike for this artillery hlmet and the trichter are fluted. You might think that the shell of this helmet is rough in fact the silk liner top has come loose from the inside.  You would be right but I got this for so cheap that I will overlook it.  

Good wappen with pierced crowns and gilding. German silver landwehr cross.

Large Bavarian Officer's cockade and cruciform spike base with a short front leg. All Bavarian chin scales at this time were convex.

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