Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Archive all of which are secured

all of which are secured in place by dual prongs

with tissue insert

support added behind the lower left ball finial

Weller was appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant on probation with the Imperial Army (Royal Flying Corps

Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Archive all of which are securedPlume in a bright white horsehair wrapped around a stiff white core that is wrapped in white feathers, the horsehair very smooth and fine to the touch, with a white synthetic ring affixed by a thin twisted wire support that emerges from underneath a three level feathered skirt at the base, the feathers in red, white and blue, the feathered skirt butting a large knot composed of twenty four rows of rolled gold coloured bullion wire wrapped around a