A French mounted gendarme's helmet

A French mounted gendarme's helmet, brass with nickel-silver mountings, broad band embossed with flaming grenade, high comb with the face of the gorgon Medusa at the peak and with a black horse hair crest, plume fitted to a socket at the left, brass chin scales, leather liner, early 20th Century; together with a British Royal Marines tropical helmet, lacking finial. [2]