A German Black Leather Belt by Kernstuck 1937

Belt with a thick smooth finished black upper, with a smooth finished black underside, very flexible, unmarked, smooth finished black leather tab stitched in place to the underside, with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment on the right end, emboss stamped with the RZM (Reichszeugmeisterei) insignia, marked "KERNSTÜCK" and maker marked "L4/628/37" on the tab where it is stitched to the body of the belt, aluminum receiving clip held firmly in place where the belt wraps around to the reverse on the left end, the belt measuring 43 mm x 935 mm. Light contact and crazing on the upper of the belt and the tab, light wear on the underside. 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.