French Second Empire Officers Buckle Garde Mobile

Original era manufacture. Handsome stamped brass buckle which measures 52x58mm and displays on its obverse a silver washed Imperial eagle of Napoleon III, who reigned from 1852-1870.The French army was quite active during his rule, with expeditions to the Crimea and China, war with Italy in 1866, the expedition to Mexico in 1862, and of course the 1870-1871 War with the German states which brought his empire crashing down.Multi piece construction in very clean condition