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OFFICERS' ACCOUTREMENTS AND INSIGNIA OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE, &C Late 19th early 20th Century An officer's pouch with bombé white metal flap mounted with gilt full double-headed eagle Arms and edged with gilt brass rim with two small foliate ornaments, the end-plates of white metal with raised trophy of arms decoration, complete with leather fixing loops and small buckle; a similar pouch, but of the Republic period, with the gilt double-headed eagle device bearing the shield of Austria alone and with no crowns; two Austrian pouchbelts of narrow red leather faced with gold lace with a thin black line, one (with one end missing) with its white metal buckle, tip and slide, the other lacking all its fittings; the flap and end-plates of an Austrian officer's pouch, with crowned Eagle, now mounted on a small red leather box; another red leather box, of similar period, also mounted with a metal flap, but bearing gilt Gothic letters A and C beneath a crown; an officer's pouch of a Hungarian Honved regiment, similar in style to Austrian pouches but with flap mounted with the cypher 1FJ surmounted by St. Stephen's Crown in gilt, the ends of pouch-box with ornamental white metal facing; and three Austro-Hungarian badges: an officer's gilt metal plate (for full dress headdress), consisting of the full double-headed eagle arms with small shield below (mounted with the number 3), and with hook at top (top finial slightly defective), an officer's gilt metal headdress plate of similar pattern to the above (but with the numeral-shield blanked with two rivets, and one fixing-spike missing); and an officer's gilt metal pouch-badge in the form of the twin shields and crowns of Austria and Hungary linked by the motto scroll INDIVISIBILITER AC INSEPARABILITER (fixings missing) (8)