Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden The front is completed by

The front is completed by a vertical row of five olive green plastic buttons on the right side

Instituted on 17 March 1943

segments of laurel and oak leaf wreath between the arms

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

Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden The front is completed by(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