A Luftwaffe Enlisted Buckle & Tab; 1938 Pattern by L.B.A. APRECK & VRAGE

Aluminum molded buckle, second pattern with flared tail, marked “A & V”; with leather tab, marked “L.B.A. APRECK & VRAGE LEIPZIG W33 1937”; in worn condition.

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.