Original French 2nd Empire Model 1872 National Guard of Paris Gorget with Leather Backing and Spiral Buttons Antique Remingtons It comes complete with a

It comes complete with a VERY hard to find Cutlass bayonet

487 men were from Michigan

There are spots of flame figuring on the fore stock

and it is marked with a size 55½ where the shield used to be

Original French 2nd Empire Model 1872 National Guard of Paris Gorget with Leather Backing and Spiral Buttons Antique Remingtons It comes complete with aOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely example of a 19th Century French Second Empire Officers Gorget, as worn by the Royal Guard of the Restoriation. A gorget, from the French gorge meaning throat, was a band of linen wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period or the lower part of a simple chaperon hood. The term later described a steel or leather collar to protect the throat, a set of pieces of plate armor, or a