Antique French Sapeurs Pompiers Brass Fire Helmet Casque Pompier 19thC 12"H LS#099 Kasuri and Edo artistry

and Edo artistry

and print designer and a contributor to the Miyakoshinbun newspaper

Having been used lovingly for over nearly a century it remains in good condition

The backs retain their original mounting plates and show natural Edo-period oxidation with traces of old lacquer from tsuka placement

To make a wish you paint in one eye

Antique French Sapeurs Pompiers Brass Fire Helmet Casque Pompier 19thC 12"H LS#099 Kasuri and Edo artistryAntique French communal fire brigade helmet (casque de sapeurs pompiers) all brass construction with engraved front plate, chain chin scales, and high cimier comb Antique French, mid to late 19th century Napoleon Bonaparte reordered the various firefighting organisations in Paris into a unit of the French Army called the Sapeurs pompiers, who wore a brass helmet with a high central crest similar to that worn by dragoon cavalry, with a frontal plate on