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The mounted buckle worked on the same principle as the dismounted buckle, but it took a different hook attachment on the belt. The belts that go with this style buckle are quite hard to find. Chip

It looks to be a Hessen piece to me. Chip

Hi Milosz, It is Feld-Artillerie Abteilung Nr. 294, which according to British intelligence, was stationed in Germany and not in the field in the Fall of 1917. I don't own Kraus's book on the wartime field artillery units, but in von Stein's research, it was last identified with the 17.Armee. Chip

Hi Dan, They absolutely made Reithosen and Stiefelhosen without piping. Regular infantry Tuchhosen with red piping were made right up until the end of the war, though the feldgrau cloth was replaced by a gray color called "graue Grundtuch" for a period of time. The feldgrau color eventually...

I have a lot of buttons too. Most of them are imperial German, but the only ones I collect are company numbered buttons (and I'll include collar disks). I have a few livery type German buttons as well. Chip

It's difficult to say 100% from these photos, but it looks like a private purchase tunic from a Prussian field artillery regiment. I say this because of the piping color combination, the Swedish cuffs and the brass buttons. Chip

Sorry for the delay. I just saw this. One of the more commonly encountered regimental shoulder straps, the "Grenadier-Regt. König Friedrich III. (2.Schlesisches) Nr. 11" strap is a M1915 pattern, originally meant for the Bluse, but also seen as pattern upgrade on earlier model tunics. This...

Just one observation....according to the markings, this can only be the 2.Garde-Regiment zu Fuß. The feldgrau material seems more like a private purchase type cloth, but the shortages of 1915 precipitated a lot of strange things out of necessity. My guess would be that the government went out on...

A rare find. Even with the old repairs, a very desirable piece. A Hessen one sold on German Ebay last year, so the rarer models do show up from time to time. Chip

Interesting combination of hooks and visor sleeves. I am assuming that the hooks were a later addition? I have never seen a D.R.P. marked cover with hooks before. I have an issue, unit marked J.z.P cover that I bought from the Norm Hobson estate back in the 1970s. I had two such covers, but sent...

I would say that the straps are those of the Garde Grenadier Rgt. Nr. 4. There is really no other possibility. The blue of their boards was a medium blue, not the dark blue of say the Infanterie Leibregiment Nr.117. The color would actually not appear to be much different than the gray color of...

The 414th was created during the war, so I don't know of any reason that an officer's board from the regiment would be on a Dunkelblau coat. And...having been created when it was (post September 21, 1915) it would have had white underlay on the officer's boards. Frankly, this board is of a width...

None of them look like any fun to me! :lol: Chip

In 1916 the enlisted men and officer's of some newly formed Saxon and Württemberg Abwehrdivisionen (Nrs. 201-204) were authorized to wear the letters (abbreviated) of their associated location on their shoulder straps. As Drake says, Infanterie Regiment Stuttgart (Nr.413) used the letters "St"...

Nick, I think the slit in the board was meant to make it a little pouch. You often see shoulder straps used as mementos of a soldier's service time. We see watch pouches, pillow shams, table cloths, blankets, pin cushions and such, all made from shoulder straps.

It sounds like you are describing the cypher of the Anhaltisches Inf.Rgt.Nr. 93. Here is a drawing from Paul Pietsch. If this isn't it, then you will have to post a picture. Chip

Whatever it is, it's non-regulation. There were plenty of "L's" used for different things in the German army. This one looks more like a Luftschiffer "L" to me. Perhaps they are attached as guards to such a unit. The photo is from some time during the first four months of the war. I have seen...

Steve did a great job. I spent a day with him getting photographs of my original stuff to be used as reference for the designers. No guess-work here. The only thing I couldn't provide was an early tunic with Brandenburg cuffs. All of my issue enlisted tunics have either Swedish or the Bavarian...

I think Guard Train Battalion might be another possibility. Chip

Joe, This is one of those enigmas, wrapped in a mystery. Graudenz is in East Prussia inside the XVII A.K.. I don't see any units with these white Patten with piping. To confuse matters further, he is not wearing a Prussian cockade on his cap. The cap is an old style, one that you would think...