Oval aluminum buckle with polished highlights, 55mm x 50mm, featuring customs eagle and pebbled dome, with s full acanthus leaves wreath, unmarked; attached to a brocade style belt, 45mm high, constructed of interwoven aluminum flat wires, sitting on top of forest green wool backing; through the center of belt all the way around running two green stripes, each approx. 6mm wide, in green threads; leather tongue stitched on reverse has “105” written with pencil – length of the belt, 105cm; in overall near mint condition. (illustrated on p.461 and p.643 of Angolia’s book).
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.

