Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Gendarmerie Officer’s Parade Bandolier and Ammunition Cartouche GTRexclude inscribed “DEN 18 OCTOBER 1861)

inscribed “DEN 18 OCTOBER 1861) (“THE 18th OF OCTOBER 1861”)

each bearing four bands of rolled silver aluminum wire and pinned with a silvered bronze rank pip and number “28”

the obverse depicting a royal crown

This would explain Karl Lange’s young appearance and his late battle deployment

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Gendarmerie Officer’s Parade Bandolier and Ammunition Cartouche GTRexclude inscribed “DEN 18 OCTOBER 1861)(Paradebandelier und Kartuschkasten fr Offiziere der Gendarmerie). A rare Gendarmerie Officers parade bandolier and ammo cartouche, the former constructed of a police green wool base with a reinforced canvas core, overlaid across the length of the obverse with a silver aluminum wire tresse which encompasses its full width, terminating at one end in a pebbled aluminum clip adjusted with a functional pebbled oval aluminum buckle, unmarked, measuring 5