Busby
Category
Costume
Date
1912
Materials
Metal, Opossum, Textile
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1176037
Summary
An Officer's, busby from the Life Hussar Regiment No.1 (Danzig-Langfur), Germany, 1912. The famous 'Death's Head Hussars'. Of grey opossum fur with cream, fulled, wool crown and a point going down to the left hand side. It has a silver metallic cord around it and a metal chin strap. Skull or deaths head to the front and a metal base to the cockade with short black feather coming from it then long feather out of that.
Provenance
collection of Col E.P.Ryan (see PLN/RYAN/B/34)