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The saddle I posted from an auction site to the swiss tack topic seems to be german after all:
http://gyujtemeny.vatera.hu/militaria/f ... 92491.html
Any information on the type and use of it?

This might be the predecessor of the saddles above:
http://gyujtemeny.vatera.hu/militaria/f ... 92491.html
What do you think?

I don't know if it's the right topic for this question. I wonder what this saddle might be: http://gyujtemeny.vatera.hu/militaria/felszereles/nyereg_bock_tipusu_i_vilaghaboru_jo_allapotu_1691133266.html The seat is similar to the armeesattel and the rawhide seat is there too but the tree looks more ...

I managed to put my hands on an original and copied the pattern of the flap. I'll have to make a wooden model of the knee roll and a counter piece for molding the leather. The saddles I usually work with doesn't have a molded flap (those have a molded seat what is even more tricky :)). I stripped th...

Didn't see much action I guess :) I have to repair two of these now and some point are not clear to me. For example the little strap joining the two triangular loop on the front of the pommel. What is it there for? Was it present on every saddle? The loops at the base of the cantle are different. Th...

I'm looking for detaild schematics for Armeesattel 25. Do such exist? There were (are) such specifications for the hungarian military saddles.
I have to restore an Armeesattel from 1944 and the flaps are missing.

There was a third bock, the German saddle, Deutscher Sattel, and looks quite the same as this austrian bock. http://i34.tinypic.com/6q9xyc.jpg I belive this saddle is a 99 M. (1899 pattern) saddle. I don't have the specification on that saddle so I'm completely sure. There's a 1935 packing regulati...

At last! I knew that there must be other specimens of this saddle apart the one I own :) Here's an old picture of it that was taken before I bought it: http://community.webshots.com/photo/29125679/29125790BklOECpUhI It's been repaired since then, and not having a saddle that gives a better seat I us...