A 1940-1945 Pattern German State Railway Company Leader's Belt Buckle by Assmann

Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft): In stamped gilt aluminum, maker marked with the stylized Assmann "A" (F.W. Assmann & Söhne, Lüdenscheid), marked "DRGM" (Deutsches Reichsgebrauchsmuster) and numbered "40" (1940) on the reverse, measuring 47 mm, worn, 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.