A German State Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn) 1940-1945 Belt Buckle

In stamped zinc alloy, unmarked reverse, 47 mm, affixed to the belt via silvered bronze hardware, receiving clip on the left end in silvered bronze, on a smooth finished black leather belt with white finished underside, smooth finished mid-tone brown leather tab stitched to the underside of the belt at the right end, the tab maker marked "R Ro" and stamped "110" in silver-coloured ink with nine rows of two holes each for length adjustment, two leather sliders on the belt, additional smooth finished mid-tone brown leather strap stitched on the underside of the belt at the back incorporating a smaller strap housing an aluminum D-ring, a second aluminum D-ring stitched to a sliding strap at the left end, very light crazing on the belt, 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.