A Double Open-Claw Buckle with Brown Belt

Dual-prong open-claw gilt metal buckle on the right end, non-magnetic, unmarked, the buckle measuring 45.5 mm x 61.2 mm. Belt with a thick smooth finished brown upper, raw underside, without stampings, eight rows of two holes each for length adjustment on the left end, the pair closet to the end having been added by the owner, the belt measuring 44 mm x 1,080 mm. Overall gilt wear on the buckle, light contact and crazing on the upper of the belt. Better than 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.