Germany, Heer. Four Sets of Musician Swallow’s Nests Hold The blade is embedded into

The blade is embedded into the heavy steel crossguard that is designed with both an upward-facing and a downward facing quillon

" in three locations on the reverse

Footnote:  According to an order issued in June of 1937

The tabs are flanked on either side on the shoulders by a pair of blank sewn-on shoulder straps that are secured to the tunic via a single gilded button

Germany, Heer. Four Sets of Musician Swallow’s Nests Hold The blade is embedded into(Heer Schwalbennester). Three matching sets of Heer Signals musician swallows nests, each constructed of lemon yellow wool with a field grey wool underlay, bearing nine silver aluminum wire tresses arranged vertically, with an additional tresse of identical construction, both tresses executed according to late Reichswehr and early Wehrmacht (c. 1930) regulations, the reverse of each featuring five magnetic metal hooks for uniform attachment, unmarked