A German Police Officer's Brocade & Buckle by Friedrich Linden, Lüdenscheid

Buckle in silvered aluminum on the right end, marked with the RZM (Reichszeugmeisterei) insignia and maker marked "M4/22" (Friedrich Linden, Lüdenscheid) on the hook and marked "D.R.G.M." (Deutsches Reichsgebrauchsmuster) on the reverse, illustrating an angled swastika, with a half-wreath of oak leaves and acorns with a ribbon at the base below and inscribed "Gott mit uns" above, on a fine pebbled background, the buckle measuring 49.2 mm. Belt with fine aluminum wire and two rows of black embroidered dashes flanking a central row of red embroidered dashes and interlaced with white threading on the upper, forest green underside, thick smooth finished butterscotch-coloured leather tab stitched in place on the underside on the right end, the tab with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment, matching silvered aluminum receiving clip on the left end, two sliders on the belt with fine aluminum wire uppers and forest green backers, the belt measuring 46 mm x 1,040 mm. Light contact on the buckle, undulation evident at various locations on the belt's upper. 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.