Germany, Heer. A Private Pre-War Photo Album, c. 1939 visually-hidden engraved with an ornate leafing

engraved with an ornate leafing pattern on the body of the scabbard to either side of the blue enamelled panel

constructed of an off-white paper stock binding secured together with a magnetic metal brace and featuring 37 interior pages of identical construction

maker marked on suspension ring with Latvian maker hallmark

suspended from its period original multi-coloured ribbon with functional horizontal pinback assembly

Germany, Heer. A Private Pre-War Photo Album, c. 1939 visually-hidden engraved with an ornate leafing(Heer Fotoalbum). Constructed of a card stock binding, the exterior featuring a textured dark brown faux leather liner, the spine perforated with four eyelets reinforced with magnetic metal grommets through which is looped a drawstring which maintains the albums structural integrity, the cover bearing a silvered Stahlhelm and inscription of MEINE DIENSTZEIT (MY SERVICE TIME), the interior content consisting of 24 black card stock pages pasted with 170