WWI German Souvenir ‘Hate Belt’ Assembled by Sergeant L.R. RIDGE, HQ Coy, United States 38th Infantry, with his initials mounted on the belt. A remarkable collection of 21 German items including black and silver wound badges, fine officer’s epaulette insignia to the Prussian Hussar Regt ‘Koenig Wilhelm I’ (WRI cipher), Baden & Oldenburg (W over II), Royal Prussian Airship Battalion No. 4 (L4), Saxon & Thuringian States etc. German buttons include a large Hussar officer’s gilt rosette for the Attila, large Sergeanten collar buttons for Bavaria (pre and post 1916), Hessen and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, smaller Gefreiter collar buttons to Bavaria, Prussia and Hessen. German national, naval, motorised buttons and insignia; six U.S. and five Russian buttons. Two large U.S. insignia with loops to the reverse and a postcard from Ridge to his mother in Burton, Ohio, dated April 1919 and another. (5 items)