Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Auction An excellent example of top

An excellent example of top quality and condition

he continued to make his presence known in the army well into the Second World War

number engraved "15970" on the reverse

with an embroidered name tag inserted into its slot

Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Auction An excellent example of topPlume in a bright white horsehair wrapped around a stiff white core that is wrapped in white feathers, the horsehair very smooth and fine to the touch, with a white synthetic ring affixed by a thin twisted wire support that emerges from underneath a three level feathered skirt at the base, the feathers in red, white and blue, the feathered skirt butting a large knot composed of twenty four rows of rolled gold coloured bullion wire wrapped around a