Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden chipping on the red enamels

chipping on the red enamels on the obverse centrepiece cross and reverse centrepiece slightly askew on the Marian Cross

reverse plain and hollow

segments of laurel and oak leaf wreath between the arms

Jimmy Wilkin­son

Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden chipping on the red enamels(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