COIFFURES. Model 1863 shako for a student of the école impériale spéciale militaire (St-Cyr), strong cardboard frame covered with dark blue cloth, black patent leather side chevrons, model 1852 2nd type plate with crowned eagle head to right on a globe stamped "Ecole impériale spéciale militaire" in gilded brass, metallic tricolour cockade, double madder pompom, madder embossed paper inner cap, patent leather chinstrap, school letterhead label indicating 2nd cie, 1869. Second Empire period. Restoration to the cloth. ABE