Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden Tank Corps "Spade"

Tank Corps "Spade"

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

Instituted on 17 March 1943

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

segments of laurel and oak leaf wreath between the arms

Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden Tank Corps "Spade"(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