Original German WWII Metropolitan Police Shako by Hans Römer with Leather Chinstrap - Size 57 ½ Category_Snider Rifle Accessories There were only five awards

There were only five awards of the Grand Cross: to King Wilhelm I in 1866

who called the Island Ceylon

The size 56 is stamped on the top of the liner leather

This portion is the lower 9 inches of the flag would hang off the edge of the display table

The small brass trigger guard (correct for this model) has a pleasing aged patina

Original German WWII Metropolitan Police Shako by Hans Römer with Leather Chinstrap - Size 57 ½ Category_Snider Rifle Accessories There were only five awardsOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice 1936 Officers pattern Tschako, with the late pattern police green wool body and black leather trim. It has a very fine quality police officer eagle with a simulated wire aluminum Feldzeichen cockade on the front (often missing) and black leather chinstrap around the "pickelhaube" style lugs. Higher ranks would have a scaled chin strap. A great Polizei helmet (shako) as used by the metropolitan