Buckle in silvered die-stamped aluminum with a bronzed gilt eagle affixed in the centre on the right end (gilt worn), unmarked, the buckle measuring 48.8 mm x 54.5 mm. Belt is fabricated from a fine aluminum wire interlaced with white threading, with a thin row of red embroidery in the centre flanked by thicker rows of black embroidery on either side on the upper, the sides and reverse in dark grayish-blue cotton, with two sliders that have matching uppers and reverses to that of the belt. Leather tab with a gray smooth finished upper and reverse stitched in place on the underside at the right end with fourteen rows of two holes each for length adjustment, name inscribed in black ink "LT. Schildt" on the reverse of the tab, matching silvered receiving clip on the left end, the belt measuring 47 mm x 950 mm. Better than 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.