Original British Victorian Brass 7th Dragoon Guards Helmet - Egyptian Campaign Era British Helmets Original aviation can showing SHELL

Original aviation can showing SHELL MEX "BP" LTD clearly stamped on each side

We assume J DEAL was the manufacturer

The reverse ricasso is matching etched with RZM M7/80 denoting Gustav C

Military acceptance marking stamp next to the name GRANT

and Colonel Reuben Tucker of the 504th PIR

Original British Victorian Brass 7th Dragoon Guards Helmet - Egyptian Campaign Era British Helmets Original aviation can showing SHELLOriginal Item: One Only. The 7th Dragoon Guards were raised in 1688 as LORD CAVENDISH'S REGIMENT OF HORSE. They fought at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, Blenheim in 1704 and Ramillies in 1706. They served throughout the 1700 and 1800s becoming known as the 7th, THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S, Dragoon Guards. Our helmet dates from approximately 1870 1880, from when the regiment fought in the Egyptian Campaign, specifically at The Battle of TEL EL KEBIR in