Zebedeus
Well-known member
The question is not so simple and definitive.
Troop's eagles are, as Steve said, much smaller in size. This is an indisputable fact.
For officer's eagles, things get complicated.
I have been able to compare various tshaska eagles, and very often they are slightly undersized, but not always, compared to the infantry or artillery ones.
Surely the vertical feathers, as said by Tony, are the irrefutable element that it is a cavalry trophy.
But the measures in height that I have detected range from 105 to 115 mm and in some cases 120mm.
I believe this is due to the officers purchasing privately made headgear with non-strictly standardized features.
In the end, however, there is only one element that can give the certainty that it is a Uhlan eagle ..........
Do you know which one it is?
Troop's eagles are, as Steve said, much smaller in size. This is an indisputable fact.
For officer's eagles, things get complicated.
I have been able to compare various tshaska eagles, and very often they are slightly undersized, but not always, compared to the infantry or artillery ones.
Surely the vertical feathers, as said by Tony, are the irrefutable element that it is a cavalry trophy.
But the measures in height that I have detected range from 105 to 115 mm and in some cases 120mm.
I believe this is due to the officers purchasing privately made headgear with non-strictly standardized features.
In the end, however, there is only one element that can give the certainty that it is a Uhlan eagle ..........
Do you know which one it is?