A Rare Technical Emergency Service Officer's Brocade Dress Belt with Buckle by Assmann

(Technische Nothilfe = TeNo) : Buckle in silvered aluminum on the right end illustrating a right-facing spread-winged eagle, clenching the TeNo insignia in its talons, on a field of emanating rays, surrounded by a wreath of laurel leaves, marked with the stylized Assmann "A" (F.W. Assmann & Söhne, Lüdenscheid) and date marked "40" (1940) on the reverse, the buckle measuring 49.2 mm x 54 mm. Belt in fine aluminum wire with two rows of black embroidery on the upper, interlaced with white threading, black cotton sides and underside, silvered aluminum receiving clip on the left end, smooth finished dark gray leather tab stitched in place on the underside on the left end, with nine rows of two holes each for length adjustment, the belt measuring 47 mm x 1,340 mm. Scattered mothing on the cotton sides and undersides, crazing on the tab, the loose end of the tab broken off at the first row of adjustment holes. Near extremely fine. This belt with buckle was introduced by F.W. Assmann & Söhne, Lüdenscheid in 1940. A rare buckle and belt. This particular belt with buckle is illustrated in black and white on page 351 and in colour on page 640 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, Revised Edition" by John R. Angolia and came from his personal collection.