Polish Cavalry Saddle of 1925

 Salvete Omnes,

  finally we have arrived in 1925, when the Polish cavalry was to received the new Polish-designed military saddle. 

saddle with leather covering, seat and saddle skirts 

saddle tree

leather saddle and skirts & linen cinch

sweat-pad /horse blanket aka potnik 

shabraque

The 1925 saddle tree bars was made from one piece of wood each, and the pommel and cantle were made out of iron metal. In the 1927 design the saddle tree bars were made from a 5 layers of birch & poplar plywood.  The straining parchment leather attached to the pommel and cantle and secured to the seat with parchment thong webbing , the whole tree covered with leather seat and leather flaps or saddle skirts. Leather saddle bags, leather shabraq, sweat-pad/horse blanket and cinch composed the remainder of the whole saddle arrangement. Finally, the Polish sabre was attached by straps under the saddle skirts, laying on the leather shabraq, 

They made four versions of this saddle for smaller and larger horses, and for officers too. 

The saddle was subject to many a discussions in the cavalry and military periodicals of the era. And these discussions would lead to a new patented saddle for Polish military, so called 1936 saddle. 

 This saddle would serve the Polish cavalry in the  1939 September campaign and was used by the Polish partisans during the war. 

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