Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Gendarmerie Officer’s Parade Bandolier and Ammunition Cartouche visually-hidden Original leather liner string is

Original leather liner string is also still present

maker seal on the inside cover

the reverse marked with an RZM logo and maker code “M1/72” for Fritz Zimmermann

An attempt was made to pass the front lines by wading and swimming in the sea

the reverse bears a crowned cipher “W” (Wilhelm) in the centre

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Gendarmerie Officer’s Parade Bandolier and Ammunition Cartouche visually-hidden Original leather liner string is(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