Belt is fabricated from a thick leather with a smooth finished brown upper, raw underside, gold-coloured aluminum receiving clip stitched in place on the left end, the clip marked with the RZM (Reichszeugmeisterei) insignia and maker marked "M4/23" (Dr. Franke & Cie KG, Lüdenscheid) on the reverse, the right end with eight rows of two holes each for length adjustment and stamped "115" in blue ink on the underside, missing its open-claw belt buckle, the belt with two sliders and measuring 60 mm x 1,110 mm. Light soiling and contact on the upper, extremely fine.
Most have not survived as they were used after the war till they were discarded. 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.