Original U.S. Indian Wars 1881 Model New York 1st Field Artillery Regiment Dress Helmet With Plume & Cords - Size 6⅞ Vickers MMG - Shell of the parka

-  Shell of the parka is made of Italian Camouflage cotton poplin with 9 x Germany army standard pebble grain hollow backed button front closure with an overlapping wind flap and an integral hood

showing a lovely red brown color with some interesting grain patterns

and contacts assembled by OSS found their way into the CIA more or less intact

They were a regular component of a ship's company from the formation of the United States Marine Corps until the 1990s

Original U.S. Indian Wars 1881 Model New York 1st Field Artillery Regiment Dress Helmet With Plume & Cords - Size 6⅞ Vickers MMG - Shell of the parkaOriginal Item: One Only Available. Much like our European cousins in the 1880s, the U. S. Army started to adopt 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. While often referred to as "pith helmets" in the broad sense, it was made from cork, like many European variants, such as the Wolseley pattern used by the