Durable two-piece cotton strap stitched in place to both angled sides at the top of a leather patch, the cotton strap measuring 46 mm in width x 1,150 mm in length, with a magnetic silvered buckle for length adjustment at the junction of the two straps, the 61.5 mm x 119 mm leather patch with reinforced stitching along the perimeter edge, magnetic functioning metal clip affixed to the leather patch by the use of a leather loop protruding from the patch and wrapped around the u-shaped loop on the clip, along with a single rivet affixed to the underside of the clip where it rest against the body of the patch. Surface rust present on the buckle, light wear on the clip, age soiling evident on the two-piece cotton strap, light wear evident on the reverse of the leather patch. Very fine.
Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolia’s book “Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich”, published in 2001.