An RAD Official's Aiguillette

Cord is fabricated from chocolate brown embroidery interlaced with with silvered aluminum wire, divided into two sections: the first section has a cord braided into multiple rows of loops, a thin loop attached to the end of the braided portion, the second section has a long looped cord, with both cords joined at three positions within an 18.5 mm x 39.5 mm chocolate brown embroidered patch interlaced with silvered aluminum wire and slotted in the centre for placement around a button on the shoulder. Tearing, fabric wear and wire fraying evident on the embroidered patch. 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.