A Fire Defence Service Enlisted Man's Belt

Belt fabricated from a very thick leather with a smooth finished black upper and a smooth finished cream-coloured underside, a tab with a supple smooth finished light brown upper and raw underside stitched in place on the underside on the right end, the tab with six rows of two holes each for length adjustment, one slider with a smooth finished black upper housing a pebbled aluminum downward-pointing D-ring on the belt, bronze receiving clip secured in place by the belt where it wraps around the left end, the belt measuring 44 mm x 1,140 mm. Crazing and surface wear evident on the upper and underside from active use. Near 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.