Thank you both very much for the fast identification and background,  really appreciate it.  Ken 

This type of sword used by the lJA was called "Model 1898 military sword / Type 32 bis".   As it is also called "Sergeant Major sword", it was issued to senior NCOs.

I've never seen a Mod 30 canteen with a issued leather shoulder strap, so I would think this is possibly a wartime repair.

I found this 9 x 7 inch, desk flag yesterday.  Appears to be silk or nylon construction with printed stripes.  It came as a surprise as I had found one like it on a pole a couple of decades ago that I have on a shelf with other items from the period. 

A Soldier of the 3rd Telegraph Battalion (Telegraphen-Bataillon 3), a great find for these obscure units to see their Markings on the Shoulder Strap first hand being worn on a uniform.

I picked this up today.  The leather strap with iron buckles is sewn to the webbing harness.  It's in rough shape, but all there and the stopper strap is leather as well.  The research I did said the leather straps are early production.  Would they still be using them with a Showa 17 canteen?

Thank you, I was looking at the M35, didn't look like it, in example the M35 has slots rather then holes on barrel jacket.   On this MP28 seems the bayonet lug has to re placed on it and it can be fixed either on the side or under muzzle correct?

hello everyone. I would like to buy this sword and here are the photos I have, could anyone tell me more? THANKS

Some very good uniforms 

That is an MP28, as developed from the late WWI MP18.   Designed by Schmeisser, it was/is a bit of a thug of a gun, topping out at over 5kg when loaded.   Well engineered, the troops liked it, as did the Allies when examples were captured.   Best   Mike

I just started a bayonet collection and here are the ones I have found so far.  The differences in them are very interesting from the early to late war models.  I saw online that the single loop frog is for field artillery; is that correct?  I looked for the reference book but it is out of my price range at the moment. 

Another one, another Gebirgs Division one. Makes me wonder if the only troops to wear the modified and or insignia upgraded Austrian Tunics were strictly those former Austrian troops who were  now in a Division formed from the Austrian Army, or did these tunics so modified and or insignia uprated tunics see wide distribution within the Heer as a whole, in example troops of the Berlin formed 3rd Panzer Division, the Cologne raised 26th Infantry Division, the Darmstadt raised 9th Infantry Division etc etc