RUSSIAN IMPERIAL 1882-PATTERN HUSSAR GENERAL’S SERVICE CAP, REIGN OF ALEXANDER III

A general officer’s hussar cavalry service cap in the Pan-Slavic style introduced during the reign of Emperor Alexander III (1881–1894). A red wool crown with a wide black faux lace band covering the rise and a front mount of a silvered Imperial eagle surmounted by a ‘For Excellence’ award scroll and an officer’s cockade. Trimmed in silver bullion cord with a hussar knot on the back and a silver ribbon cross on the crown in a general’s zigzag pattern, and lined in black cotton with a leather sweatband and a paper store label of A. Vinnale, Warsaw-Pernov. PROVENANCE: Private collection, USA