A Second War Hungarian Army Belt Buckle

Buckle fabricated from nickel-plated steel on the right end, magnetic, unmarked, illustrating the Hungarian coat-of-arms in relief, the buckle measuring 50.2 mm x 66.5 mm. Belt is fabricated from a flexible but thick leather with a smooth finished black upper, black finished underside, smooth finished brown leather tab glued in place around the roll bar of the buckle, the right end with four rows of two holes each for length adjustment, the third and fourth rows from the right end separated by a vertical slot, matching nickel-plated steel receiving clip on the left end, also magnetic, the belt with one slider and measuring 47 mm x 1,070 mm. Contact marks and surface wear on the buckle, the belt exhibiting very limited wear, better than 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.