Original French Second Empire Enlisted Infantry Shako - Circa 1860 MP 34 and manufactured by the Massachusetts

and manufactured by the Massachusetts Arms Company of Chicopee Falls

prompting an investigation into barracks conditions

and still retains its blunt factory edge

We have not had these available for years

James Ramage

Original French Second Empire Enlisted Infantry Shako - Circa 1860 MP 34 and manufactured by the MassachusettsOriginal Item: Only One Available. A nice example of a Second French Empire (Napoleon III 1852 1870) enlisted infantry shako, perhaps around the time of the Crimean War, or war with Italy in 1860. The cardboard body displays a thin covering of black fur, with a yellowish worsted wool band at the top, and a black painted rigid top. There is a black thin leather panel to the reverse, black pressed leather visor and original cockade to the front of the