24.00 USD
This small carte de visite sized photograph appears to have been taken during the late 1800s, or perhaps as late as the early 1900s. The Cuirassiers were the last of the European "knights in armor," and as late as WWI, (1914-18), rode on horseback, as mounted cavalry in their breastplates, into pitched battles against the modern weaponry of the early 20th century. So for the military history buff, here we have a rare photograph of a young Cuirassier in Cuirass and displaying his sabre. The photograph is in very nice condition. It appears to have been coated in the studio, both front and back, by a kind of flexible laquer, perhaps to waterproof it? and there are not so much cracks, as tiny horizontal wrinkles, (maybe we could call them laugh lines?), in the laquer's surface on the face of the photograph that are much more apparent in our scan than in person. Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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