Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden segments of laurel and oak

segments of laurel and oak leaf wreath between the arms

in turn culminating in a suspension loop retaining a full length period-original replacement neck ribbon

with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oblong plate

Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW = Winter Help Work) was an annual drive by the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (the National Socialist People’s Welfare Organization) to help finance charitable work

Jimmy Wilkin­son

Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden segments of laurel and oak(Sbeltasche). An extremely well preserved Hussar Officers sabretache, constructed of two pieces of pressed and reinforced red leather, with the exterior panel overlaid by red felt, in turn bearing a machine embroidered silver aluminum wire monogram of King Friedrich Wilhelm II, set within an ornate tresse of identical construction, topped by three black leather straps, each adjusted with gilded bronze lion head buckles with prongs meeting five eyelets