Us 7th Cavalry M0DEL 1881 Officer Spike Helmet
About this listing
This aggregated auction listing is being sold by HiBid in Willoughby, Ohio. The auction has 21 days remaining. BidProwl's Flip Score puts it at 80/100, which scores well above the median for military surplus.
Description from HiBid
Much like our European cousins in the 1880's, the U.S. Army started to adopt spiked pith helmets, often in white, with all brass mounts and occasionally plumes. These were known as the model of 1881. This particular example is from the famous 7th Cavalry Regiment, the same unit of George Armstrong Custer. The helmet is complete with original horsehair plume and a Federal US brass frontal plate with applied numeral 7 indicating the 7th regiment and Cavalry side buttons.
