Imperial Guards Lancers officer's czapska. Patent leather bomb. Silver lizard braid. Blue cloth flag with gilt soutaches and flag corners. Chinstraps with guilloche and smooth rings lined with light blue velvet and gilt brass lion's head attachments. Gilt brass radiating plaque with N under crown. Inner leather and brown silk cap, marked at the bottom of the pavilion "ROUART RUE RICHELIEU 86". Embroidered tricolour cockade. Half spherical pompom in silver gilt (oxidised). B.E. Second Empire period. Rouart, equipment manufacturer active under the July Monarchy, the Second Empire and the Third Republic.