Germany, Imperial. A Berlin Fire Brigade Helmet, By Georg C. Hansen consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Idar-Oberstein)

Idar-Oberstein)

salmon-coloured velvet raised platform with recessed medal bed for the breast star

all of fire-bronze construction and bearing raised anchors

Footnote: Frederick Lewis Henderson was born on April 29

Germany, Imperial. A Berlin Fire Brigade Helmet, By Georg C. Hansen consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Idar-Oberstein)(Berlin Feuerwehrhelm). A well preserved Berlin Fire Brigade helmet, constructed of a boiled and blackened leather shell. It is topped by a narrow gilded brass comb which extends from the crown to the reverse, where it meets a boiled and blackened leather neck guard. Riveted to the peak is an insignia consisting of a silvered brass plate in the form of a radiant starburst overlaid by a central raised Berlin coat of arms, in turn set within a ribbed