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My stirrups and leathers are modern manufacture..

Here are some of my pictures. And perhaps a bit more practice uploading pictures wwould be good as well...

John

I took several pictures of my saddle and in so doing had just the right light and low and behold there was an eagle stamped in the leather of the seat just above the #2. There is also a mark on the other side of the cutout just above the other #2 but I cannot make it out... When I had the seat off I ...

Nicole

In your post you mentioned that if the saddle had been used on a draft animal there would be a strap on the down side of the saddle, I am not sure where the "down side" is...

john

There is no doubt that what I have is an M25. I have a copy of "Horses of the German Army in WWll". I have pretty well dissasembled the saddle and it has all of the "D" rings, staples and other hardware in the same places as the saddles pictured in that book.

I presently do not have a picture, but ...

I am new to this forum, and so this may be a question someone has already answered. I have a very nice M25, I use it regularly, it appears that it must have been stored someplace because the only signs of age are some small amount of corrosion on the iron/steel fittings.

It is a number (2) saddle ...