Rare officer's trial helmet of the 44th regiment of line infantry proposed in 1836. Bomb, visor and nape of the neck in boiled leather. Crest twisted on the top in boiled leather, with gilded stamped brass plates on the sides and front, worked to the line in edge and decorated with acanthus leaves, palmettes. Rosettes with the star, on amati bottom, and plate with the rooster on radiant bottom with the number 44, out of gilded brass. Tricolor cockade in embossed metal. Wooden pompom covered with blue cloth divided in its center of a silver thread passementerie, marmoset in silver thread passementerie and scarlet thread (small moth holes). Marmoset puff in scarlet hair. Inside cap in "wolf's teeth" in basane. B.E. Model tried in 1836. History: As early as 1836, a helmet with a "boiled leather" crest was tested in the 44th, 45th and 47th regiments of the line infantry . This prototype was not adopted, but some documents suggest that it was used by some municipal fire departments like those of Strasbourg. Bibliography: Christian TAVARD, "Casques et coiffures militaires français", Grancher, 1981, p. 94 .