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A collection of British soldiers "or redcoats if you're an American" wearing the Belltop shako, a type of shako put into service in British army from 1829 to 1844 and famously saw use in the first opium war ( 1839-1842).

the Belltop was criticised by the troops for being rather impractical and was replaced by the Albert style of shako, commonly seen used in the Crimean war.
personaly after laying eyes on the thing for the first time I immediately sympathised with the critics, but after a while I wanted to sketch out the different forms of shakos and I began to grow fond of the Belltop, hence why this page has other types of shakos on top corners of the page and pure bell tops towards the bottom.

Description
A collection of British soldiers "or redcoats if you're an American" wearing the Belltop shako, a type of shako put into service in British army from 1829 to 1844 and famously saw use in the first opium war ( 1839-1842).

the Belltop was criticised by the troops for being rather impractical and was replaced by the Albert style of shako, commonly seen used in the Crimean war.
personaly after laying eyes on the thing for the first time I immediately sympathised with the critics, but after a while I wanted to sketch out the different forms of shakos and I began to grow fond of the Belltop, hence why this page has other types of shakos on top corners of the page and pure bell tops towards the bottom.