Ninth Queen's Royal Lancer's Cap

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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Ninth Queen's Royal Lancers Lance Cap, also called a czapka, the black, flat, leather top with gilt brass fittings to corners, over ribbed velvet incurvate sides, with brass ribs, the leather skull with gilt metal ribbed and knotted band in low relief, over a large triangular rayed crest, molded with battle honors, royal cypher, and the "Royal Lancers" banner, naming various famed battles on the peninsula, India and Afghanistan. Black and white feather plume to one side. Velvet lined chin chain held by lion's head bosses to either side. Circa 1880.

{Approximate dimensions not including chin strap: 15 3/4" high with plume x 8 3/4" wide and 8" deep without plume.}.

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Minor wear for age overall, including some craquelure, rubbing, loose fibers, velvet with a few small losses, metal with tarnish, patina. Chin strap with misaligned links, some detached from strap. Helmet skull with texturing pattern as made. Please contact the Furniture and Decorative Arts Department for a detailed condition report on this lot.

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Daniel M. (Wygold) Mitchell Estate. Mr. Mitchell was a Naval Officer and an entrepreneur. Serendipitously, Lieutenant Commander Dan Mitchell transferred to the Naval Reserve where he joined VR-872 – a Navel transport squadron out of the Alameda Naval Air Station that Michaan’s is located on now. He and his wife, Paris, loved to travel and made it a point to travel to Paris twice a year, and always brought back beautiful and interesting items. His collection covers the spectrum from noted painters to precise metal aircraft and automobile models. Michaan’s is honored to be offering this collection over the next four months. The September collection includes artists Greg Gandy, Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau, Giulio Rosati, and Marcel Brunery to name a few. Along with a variety of Empire and Empire Style Gilt Bronze Figural clocks, period military helmets, marble busts, bronze and gilt brass urns, and complex models of military ships and aircraft.

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Ninth Queen's Royal Lancer's Cap

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