A Wartime Converted DJ to HJ Buckley by Paul Cramer & Co.

In stamped silvered brass with a stamped steel HJ face plate affixed by two rivets over a DJ insignia, marked with the RZM (Reichszeugmeisterei) insignia and maker marked "U.E.72" (Paul Cramer & Co., Lüdenscheid), measuring 48 mm x 63.2 mm, worn and converted, 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.