This is a mint unused example: Cord is fabricated from rolled aluminum wire interlaced with green embroidery, divided into three sections: the first section has a cord braided into multiple rows of loops, a thin wire loop attached to the ends of the braided portion, the second section has a shorter looped cord with a braided sliding adjustment knot, the third section has a long looped cord, with all three cords joined at five positions within a 27.5 mm x 29.5 mm fine aluminum wire patch and slotted in the centre for placement around a button on the shoulder, with official yellow and gray string binding. Mint.
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 20