A German Rural Police Buckle (Landpolizei)
Die struck in nickel silver, plain field, 63mm x 48mm, with matte silver emblem of stylized Police eagle, resting on top of vertical oval wreath; with Assmann maker mark on reverse, circa 1933-36 period manufacture, in very fine condition. Very similar (and possibly this is the one) buckle is pictured in Angolia’s book, p. 446. 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.

