An Unusual Brown Leather Army Belt

Belt in a thick leather with a semi-raw upper and a smooth finished butterscotch-coloured underside, inscribed in black ink with the owner's name and regiment at the mid-point of the belt on the underside, smooth finished mid-tone brown leather tab stitched in place on the underside at the right end, the tab with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment, emboss stamped with an "A" on the portion where it is stitched to the body of the belt, emboss stamped "0/0783" over "0029" where the belt wraps around the magnetic silvered receiving clip at the left end, the belt measuring 43 mm x 1,170 mm. Light wear evident on both the upper and underside, crazing present on the tab. 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.