Tweet
Hier mein aktueller Wissensstand. Die Quelle für "bis 1806 für offiz. rot und eckige Schabracken, farbe der ca. 3,5 cm breiten tresse in knopffarbe." würde mich interessieren !
The earliest regulation I know of is the AKO of 11th February 1817 for staff officers (i.e. Major and above), adjudants in the infantry and officers who were not members of a regiment. Mila (§ 666) gives it as:
Square shabraque, of ponceau red (carmoisin red for officers of the general staff) cloth, with an edging in the colour of the regimental buttons and identical in shape to the edging of the saddleclothes of cuirassier officers (see http://www.napoleon-online.de/PR_JuegelWolf_Tafel51.jpg ).
For parades and inspections by the king, only these red saddle cloths were to be worn. (This means for me that on other occasions officers could wear other saddle cloths, if they, or their regimental commanders, liked to do so.)
Mila adds that before 1850, the guard infantry regiments had square bearskin shabraques with the silver star in the corner (§ 806), and that grenadier regiments also used these square bearskin shabraques for parades, but with a golden bursting grenade in the corner. This grenade was found in the corners of the 1817 red saddle cloths as well (§ 831).
Pietsch (vol. 1, p. 257) offers the additional information that before 1817, infantry officers had square red saddleclothes with simple white or yellow cloth edging, corresponding to the regimental buttons. The guards had bearskins with a silver star with coloured field in the corners, the grenadiers a golden grenade instead. According to Pietsch, after 1817, the guards were tacitly allowed to continue with their bearskin shabraques.
Unfortunately, Pietsch doesn't give a source for his statements. That an explicit order of the king is tacitly ignored under his very eyes seems hard to believe for me.
On Eckert & Monten's 1835 plates on the Prussian army, the edging on the infantry officers' saddlecloths is definitely golden lace. Possibly, the edging was silver/gold lace before, and not of cloth, as stated by Pietsch.
Probably, before 1817, officers' saddlecloth was up to their personal choice (or that of their regimental commander).
Jügel & Wolf depict a major of the Kaiser-Franz-Grenadier-Regiment in very late 1815 or 1816 on horseback:
The square saddlecloth is dark blue with a golden lace edging, about 5 cm wide (nearly as wide as the officer's cuffs). The pistol holsters have basically a trapez shape cover of dark blue cloth edged with the same golden lace. The dimensions of these holster covers are roughly 25 cm at the base, 15 cm at the top and 30 cm at the sides, but the outer 5cm x 5cm x 5cm triangles of the two lower corners are cut off, so that the holster cover in fact has got six corners. Between the golden lace and the edge of the saddle cloth and of the holster covers, a thin piping like stripe of dark blue cloth can be seen.
Unfortunately, that's all I know.
Oliver
Square shabraque, of ponceau red (carmoisin red for officers of the general staff) cloth, with an edging in the colour of the regimental buttons and identical in shape to the edging of the saddleclothes of cuirassier officers (see http://www.napoleon-online.de/PR_JuegelWolf_Tafel51.jpg ).
For parades and inspections by the king, only these red saddle cloths were to be worn. (This means for me that on other occasions officers could wear other saddle cloths, if they, or their regimental commanders, liked to do so.)
Mila adds that before 1850, the guard infantry regiments had square bearskin shabraques with the silver star in the corner (§ 806), and that grenadier regiments also used these square bearskin shabraques for parades, but with a golden bursting grenade in the corner. This grenade was found in the corners of the 1817 red saddle cloths as well (§ 831).
Pietsch (vol. 1, p. 257) offers the additional information that before 1817, infantry officers had square red saddleclothes with simple white or yellow cloth edging, corresponding to the regimental buttons. The guards had bearskins with a silver star with coloured field in the corners, the grenadiers a golden grenade instead. According to Pietsch, after 1817, the guards were tacitly allowed to continue with their bearskin shabraques.
Unfortunately, Pietsch doesn't give a source for his statements. That an explicit order of the king is tacitly ignored under his very eyes seems hard to believe for me.
On Eckert & Monten's 1835 plates on the Prussian army, the edging on the infantry officers' saddlecloths is definitely golden lace. Possibly, the edging was silver/gold lace before, and not of cloth, as stated by Pietsch.
Probably, before 1817, officers' saddlecloth was up to their personal choice (or that of their regimental commander).
Jügel & Wolf depict a major of the Kaiser-Franz-Grenadier-Regiment in very late 1815 or 1816 on horseback:
The square saddlecloth is dark blue with a golden lace edging, about 5 cm wide (nearly as wide as the officer's cuffs). The pistol holsters have basically a trapez shape cover of dark blue cloth edged with the same golden lace. The dimensions of these holster covers are roughly 25 cm at the base, 15 cm at the top and 30 cm at the sides, but the outer 5cm x 5cm x 5cm triangles of the two lower corners are cut off, so that the holster cover in fact has got six corners. Between the golden lace and the edge of the saddle cloth and of the holster covers, a thin piping like stripe of dark blue cloth can be seen.
Unfortunately, that's all I know.
Oliver
Kommentar