Original Imperial Russian WWI Officer Papakha Kubanka Wool Hat with Cockade Martini-Henry Rifles Most attractive and hard to

Most attractive and hard to find

This fine example has an early military type rounded faced lock plate without any pan re-enforcement bar

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though they are now faded

though it has been sharpened multiple times

Original Imperial Russian WWI Officer Papakha Kubanka Wool Hat with Cockade Martini-Henry Rifles Most attractive and hard toOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Russian Papakha (Russian: ), also known as astrakhan peruk in English, is a wool hat worn by men throughout the Caucasus and also in uniformed regiments in the region and beyond. The word papakha is of Turkic origin (papak). In Azerbaijani, papaq literally translates to hat. There are two different Russian papakhas. One, called a papaha, is a high fur hat, usually made of karakul sheep skin. The hat has the