Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac scattered gilt and silvering wear

scattered gilt and silvering wear on the obverse

yellowing evident in the white enamels on the obverse

On reaching bottom he found the line tangled around a large ship’s deck knee

Footnote: The 2010 Winter Olympics

obverse centre shows magnolia flower imposed on red enamel

Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac scattered gilt and silvering wear(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