To: vette6387
Don't know about the cap, but the belt is called a “Sam Brown Belt” and was around before the Nazis. They started wearing them in the early to mid 1920s, I have one that is even older than that. Mid teens I think. The U.S. Army used them prior to WWll and Many police departments used them in the first half of the 20th century and I suspect some still do on dress uniforms.
41 posted on
03/16/2014 8:37:45 PM PDT by
Tupelo
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To: Tupelo
Sam Browne invented the belt to allow him to draw his saber after he lost one arm, long before Hitler was born.
47 posted on
03/16/2014 8:51:36 PM PDT by
dsc
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