Germany, Heer. An Em/Nco’s M44 Field Blouse, By Spiesshofer & Braun Newly Listed An 1860 French China Expedition

An 1860 French China Expedition Medal - Silver

The chinstrap has two steel adjustment buckles and the helmet liner is stamped with a black “55”

the Mons Clasp having come away from the ribbon

circumscribed by an abbreviated inscription of “GENESSMO FRANCO

eight days shy of his twenty-eighth birthday

Germany, Heer. An Em/Nco’s M44 Field Blouse, By Spiesshofer & Braun Newly Listed An 1860 French China Expedition(Heer Feldbluse M44). A well preserved Heer EM NCOs M44 field blouse, constructed of a field grey wool twill. It features a collar flanked on each side by tabs consisting of silver grey rayon, bisected by central machine embroidered dark grey bands, set within small bands of identical composition. Each tab measures 25 mm (w) x 65 mm (l). The shoulders are also flanked with integrated loops for the accommodation of straps, which have since been lost.