A 1940 Pattern Luftwaffe Enlisted Man's/NCO's Belt Buckle by Christian Theodor Dicke

In stamped steel, painted field grey/blue (obverse paint worn from use), reverse maker marked "C.T.D." (Christian Theodor Dicke, Lüdenscheid) and dated "1942" on the reverse, measuring 48.2 mm x 64.5 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.