A German Police Dress Cross Belt & Buckle with Pouch

Belt is fabricated from a thick leather, with a smooth white upper and edges, the underside in a butterscotch-coloured finish, with two distinct pieces composing the length of the belt, slotted tab stitched to the underside just to the right of the buckle with an aluminum post at the tab's far end, with slotted leather tabs stitched in place at either end, pebbled aluminum rectangular buckle, slider and half-moon shaped guard at the junction end, the shorter piece secured in place via a loop on the reverse of the buckle on the longer piece, the belts measuring 49.5 mm wide each, the shorter piece 340 mm in length and the longer piece approximately 120 cm in length. The accompanying pouchis fabricated from a thick leather, upper with a smooth black finish, the underside in a butterscotch-coloured finish, emboss stamped with the "A. FISCHER BERLIN C.2" maker mark and dated "1937", a weather flap stitched in place on the front with a 51.5 mm x 100.5 mm die-stamped silvered aluminum Police insignia affixed via three aluminum prongs on the underside and held firmly in place via a thin strip of white leather tied between and knotted around the bottom prong, short slotted leather strap stitched in place at the triangular junction of the of the white strap that if fed through the prongs of the Police insignia, an aluminum post on the bottom attached to the end of the aforementioned belt, angled leather straps on either side on the reverse for placement upon a waist belt, slotted leather strap stitched in place at the junction of the two angled straps, the pouch measuring 85 mm x 138 mm x 33 mm. The belt has hardened and become very stiff with age, exhibiting extensive crazing in the white upper, the weather flap of the pouch having experienced a crack that travels the entire width of the flap, severing the leather but the outer black layer remains intact, holding the weather flap in place. 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.