British American Revolutionary War Era Leather Tarleton Cap Helmet with Bearskin Crest Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets It features the correct all

It features the correct all brass mounts all in good lightly used condition

with a great patina and lovely darkening on the oak leaf side panel

the helmet is allowed to collapse into itself

all items that were in excess on a US Navy ship

British American Revolutionary War Era Leather Tarleton Cap Helmet with Bearskin Crest Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets It features the correct allNew Made Item. This pattern of helmet was named after Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton who commanded the British Legion during the American War of Independence (1775 1783). With its bearskin crest the tarleton was regarded as 'the handsomest' of helmets and was reportedly much admired by foreign forces at the time. The Tarleton cap remained the most popular form of cavalry headdress in the post war United States, worn by the cavalry (and later