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Helmet of gendarme of the King's House model 1814. Black...

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Helmet of gendarme of the King's House model 1814. Black leather bomb and visor. Crest cut out in dragon wings, bomb motif with flaming spindles enriched with lightning, band with the Grandes Armes de France under a crown, on a cloudy background, enriched with lightning, flaming spindles and the motto of the unit "quo juber iratus jupiter" ("Where angry Jupiter commands it"), humps with the head of a howling Medusa, chinstrap with scales (small lacks) lined with velvet and gilded brass pen holder. Black horsehair brush. Chinstrap cord made of golden trimmings. Inner headdress in leather and black silk. White feather quill with gilded brass base. B.E.