Original French Napoleonic First Empire Brass Faced Carabinier Cuirass Set - Second Empire Reissue Mortars For explanation of the maker

For explanation of the maker marks

Please remember

The process required a fresh recess hole to be drilled and the cup re-set

approx 140 pages containing 65 original adverting Plates each featuring an average of five items)

The postwar contract helmets were produced in the same factory

Original French Napoleonic First Empire Brass Faced Carabinier Cuirass Set - Second Empire Reissue Mortars For explanation of the makerOriginal Item: Only one set available. These have become exceedingly scarce. Originally used in the 1st Empire of NAPOLEON the First, many were recycled and re issued in 1858 for the Carabinier Regiments of NAPOLEON the Third. These came in various sizes and usually the tapered waist Cuirass sets, as this is, are of First Empire origin. Even by 1858 nutrition had improved and Cavalrymen were of bigger size. By today's standards these men were all