busby with sewn-on bag

[pointystuff]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IMPERIAL-GERMANY-1890-1918-HUSSAR-PELMUTZE-ORIGINAL-AND-SCARCE-/171061933464?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d415f598" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It doesn't appear to be German, but what could it actually be?

 

[poniatowski]

Metropolitan Opera? :wink: Really, no idea.

Ron

 

[pointystuff]

"Field sewing"...done by a little old lady down the block, perhaps.

 

[JohnM]

And if you look at the crooked lines the little old lady was under fire at the time she was sewing it.... \/