Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW =

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

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

Jimmy Wilkin­son

where he would recuperate for the next week before being discharged to duty on May 4th

Tank Corps "Spade"

Germany, Imperial. A Hussar Officer’s Sabretache visually-hidden Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW =(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