Germany, Prussia. A Cuirassier Regimental Body Armour, C.1875 certificate_of_authenticity (Gedenkplatte)

(Gedenkplatte)

eagle is well marked SS 475/39

1959" below

with a cardboard core

3rd Issue (1890-1913) (two-piece construction

Germany, Prussia. A Cuirassier Regimental Body Armour, C.1875 certificate_of_authenticity (Gedenkplatte)This armour consists of two basic pieces, a breast plate and back plate, both of which are manufactured from steel. The breast plate incorporates a series of 36 brass rivets around the perimeter, the four on the shoulders flattened, the remaining 32 domed. There are also two brass bolts that rise above the body of the breast plate and are placed on either side of the central vertical ridge on the chest, designed to receive the keyhole shaped