Papal Officer’s Helmet

Title (Dublin Core): Papal Officer’s Helmet
Description (Dublin Core): A blackened "boiled" [= water hardened] leather helmet, topped by a plume holder with a white horsehair willow plume [arbush?]. The skull is trimmed with gilded brass metal parts and has a brass front plate showing the decussate keys mounted by the tiara and framed at the bottom with the name of the pope "PIO IX". It seems to be the Civic Gard papal officer's helmet [1].
A little paper label hanging on the top of the helmet says "1847/ Elmo portato dal maggiore/ Luigi Cocchi/ Capo battaglione Guardia Civica/ di Budrio" [1847/ Helmet worn by Major Luigi Cocchi, Battalion Leader of the Budrio Civic Gard]; [1]
Type (Dublin Core): en Helm
Subject (Dublin Core): Pio IX army (Civic Gard)
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Italian Risorgimento
Date (Dublin Core): 1847
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): Italy; Central Italy
Medium (Dublin Core): water hardened leather; brass metal; horsehair
Extent (Dublin Core): 40 cm (h); 26 cm (d)
Publisher (Dublin Core): Istituto per i beni artistici culturali e naturali, Regione Emilia - Romagna
Provenance (Dublin Core): Torrione del Risorgimento - Budrio
License (Dublin Core): CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
uri (Bibliographic Ontology): Original Link; Archived Link