In stamped steel, with period tan paint, maker marked "Dr. F. & Co (Franke & Co., Lüdenscheid) and marked the obscured dated below (either 1942 or 1943) on the reverse, measuring 49.5 mm x 64 mm, worn, 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

