Bavaria, Kingdom. An Officer’s Brocade And Buckle Auction Archive Footnote: The First Matabele War

Footnote: The First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern day Zimbabwe

the reverse stamped with a partially-legible maker’s mark of a Magdeburg-based firm

1944 in Normandy

inscribed "REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA" above

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Officer’s Brocade And Buckle Auction Archive Footnote: The First Matabele War(Bayern Feldbinde fr Offiziere). A well preserved Bavarian Officers brocade and buckle, the former constructed of a reinforced smooth blue wool underlay, the exterior bearing a silver aluminum wire tresse with two machine embroidered light blue threaded bands, with dual sliding knots of identical composition, one end of the reverse affixed with a black leather tongue featuring nine bronze eyelets for an adjustable fit, unmarked, measuring 45 mm (w) x