Just thought I should feed the section on Tschapkas, which has not been very active lately. Here is one in reasonably good condition, with the dark brown liner representative of war years. Note that on this reserve Tschapka the arms of Saxony are gold in colour, like the star, whereas the arms should be silver in an active regiment. This is perfectly correct; it was the rule, albeit sometimes transgressed. But this did not apply to reserve infantry regiments with yellow metal fittings, for which the arms remained silver in colour, like the reserve cross.
