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M1904 shashka of the Kuban Cossack Army, Russia M1909 officer shashka, Russia M1927 shashka, USSR, FPRY

Below: M1838 shashka of the Don Cossack Army, Russia, Principality/Kingdom of Serbia M1841 shashka of the Dragoons, Principality of Serbia M1881 shashka of the Don Cossack Army, Russia

M1809 hussar saber, Russia, Principality/Kingdom of Serbia M1826 light cavalry saber, Russia, Principality/Kingdom of Serbia

Tempus et meum ius.

Exibition called "Kad oružje utihne" (When the weapons go silent) was held in Historical Museum of Serbia (Belgrade) until 31st of march. The exhibition was divided into two parts, exibition of weapons made in workshops and exibition of factory made weapons. I will in this topic mainly post pictures of factory made weapons. I would like to start with the M1861 cavalry saber that belonged to King Alexander Obrenovic. It was a gift of Karl Grasser, an Austrian weapon supplier.

Sajkaca, thank you! According to some information i recieved person on this picture was a member of guard, that confused me, because I have never seen a uniform like that before.

You're welcome. Yes, they are definitely for lower grade officers, my congrats on them, haven't seen many of those before. Ground forces are much more interesting to me too. Just like in that Wehrmacht propaganda poster: "Infanterie Konigin aller Waffen!" :)

Air force insignia.

Army insignia.

Ranks in navy.

Those tables are from: "Oznake rodova, struka i službi na odorama oružanih snaga" by Željko Heimer. It's a scientific work by an officer in Croatian armed forces, i found it in .PDF format online.

If I'm not mistaking those shoulder boards are for the junior officers of the navy, and you could see which rank they actually were by the lacing on their sleeves.

Lightfoot you have a beautiful collection, thank you very much for sharing it with us! Yes, I can see the red colour, great items, my compliments!

Thanks for pictures, are all of these items in your possession, including artillery shoulder boards? I've seen those captain's shoulder boards somewhere before, maybe on some other forum... Until '24 field marshals, army generals and division generals were using dark blue colour. After '24 they were using light blue colour, while the brigade generals were wearing colours of their branches.

Signs of specialties in the navy according to the regulations from '36.

Signs of branches on the shoulder boards of the army according to the regulations from '39.

Signs of branches on the shoulder boards of the army according to the regulation from '32.

Lightfoot thank you for your contribution to this subject! Nice looking shoulder boards, well preserved. Here is the table with colours of branches in army and navy according to the regulations from '22 and '24. [Everything is in Serbo-Croatian language]

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