Original U.S. Indian Wars 6th Infantry Regiment M-1881 Blue Cloth Spiked Pith Helmet With White Plume by Horstmann - Dated 1902 Spanish Flags it wasn’t even that high

it wasn’t even that high of a piece of high ground

following the principle that “one hand finds the other

so this was almost certainly a bespoke example made for this particular officer at a local tailor

This is a killer pair of items

That means this specimen was probably made around five years after the move to Kokura

Original U.S. Indian Wars 6th Infantry Regiment M-1881 Blue Cloth Spiked Pith Helmet With White Plume by Horstmann - Dated 1902 Spanish Flags it wasn’t even that highOriginal Item. Only One Available. Much like our European cousins in the 1880s, the U. S. Army started to adopted spiked pith helmets, often in white, with all brass mounts and occasionally plumes. These saw active service in the Spanish American War of 1898 especially in the tropical climate in Cuba. The helmet is dated 1902 on the underside of the leather sweatband. This is not the type of helmet that was worn in the field, but instead one intended