Original French 2nd Empire Garde Nationale Officers’ Liberté, Ordre Public Brass Gorget Japanese Flare Guns - Original paint with minor

- Original paint with minor wear

and crimes against humanity

with the date for the first award of a US decoration

and still has the original blued ricasso

so he may have brought the idea back with him for further development

Original French 2nd Empire Garde Nationale Officers’ Liberté, Ordre Public Brass Gorget Japanese Flare Guns - Original paint with minorOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely example of a 19th Century French Second Empire Officers Gorget, as worn by the French National Guard or Garde Nationale. A gorget, from the French gorge meaning throat, was a band of linen wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period or the lower part of a simple chaperon hood. The term later described a steel or leather collar to protect the throat, a set of pieces of plate armor,