In stamped steel painted field grey/blue, maker marked with the Schmöle & Co., Menden insignia and dated "1940" on the reverse, measuring 48.5 mm x 64 mm, maker marked "SCHMÖLE & COMP. MENDEN" and dated "1941" on the leather tab, lightly worn, 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.

