Fabricated from a thick leather with a smooth finished black upper, raw underside with a faded stamping in blue ink, brass receiving clip stitched in place where the belt narrows and wraps around to the reverse on the left end, a tab stitched in place on the underside with a smooth finished black upper on the right end, the tab with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment, the pair closest to the area where the tab is stitched to the body of the belt having been added by the owner, the belt measuring 44 mm x 1,010 mm. Light crazing and contact on the upper, tearing evident in and around some holes on the tab. Near extremely 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.