Un album al oștirii de la finele secolului al XIX-lea - necunoscut
An album of the army from the end of the 19th century - unpublished

Summary/Abstract: In 1990 I published a paper about The 19th Century Albums of the Romanian Army. At the time I was sure that this might become a comprehensive work to which nothing could have been added. Recently I have been surprised to discover, in a second hand book shop, an album totally unknown to me and to any other researcher bound to study the military uniforms. Its title is Die Rumanische Armee in ihrer gegenwărtigen Uniformirung and was published in Leipzig by the editor Moritz Ruhl. This editor was wellknown in late 19th century for his publications dealing with military topics and especially with information upon military uniforms. He edited albums about the Prussian, Russian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, British. Spanish and even Japanese armies and their latest uniforms. All of them were conceived on the same pattern: some plates depicting officers and soldiers in such position as to reveal the details of their uniforms, the cut and adornment; some plates with a concise rendering of each uniform in a rectangle with the main details which made it recongnizable (facings and pipings, golden knets ar shoulder straps, headgear and accouterment). All the above-mentioned albums had no author and no date of publication inscribed on their cover. The Romania one makes an exception: its author was cavalry lieutenant Alexandru I.V. Socec.

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