A 1942 Pattern Government Elevated and Middle Career Official's Brocade Dress Belt with Buckle

Buckle in silvered aluminum on the right end, unmarked, illustrating a left-facing spread-winged eagle clenching a wreathed swastika in its talons, surrounded by a wreath of laurel leaves, the buckle measuring 47.2 mm.Brocade dress belt in fine aluminum wire with two rows of black embroidery on the upper, interlaced with white threading, black wool sides and underside, silvered aluminum receiving clip on the left end, smooth finished light brown leather tab stitched in place on the underside on the right end, the tab with thirteen rows of two holes each for length adjustment, two sliders on the belt with matching uppers and undersides to that of the belt, one with a tab in black wool, the belt measuring 45 mm x 1,160 mm. Small mothing hole on the reverse of the tab-less slider. Better than 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.