Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Brocade and Buckle

(Heer Gürtel und Schnalle für Offiziere). A well-preserved Heer Officer’s brocade and buckle, the former constructed of a field-grey doeskin wool base, overlaid on the exterior with a silver aluminum wire tresse trimmed along both the top and bottom edges with machine-embroidered dark green bands, one end bearing a reverse brown leather tongue perforated with seven sets of dual eyelets for an adjustable fit, the other end featuring a sliding knot of identical construction and looped around a buckle, the tongue bearing an embossed maker’s mark of “WILLIAM GÜNTHER, DRESDEN”, measuring 48 mm (w) x 1080 mm (l), in near extremely fine condition; the buckle constructed of aluminum, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Heer-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a clip and loop, maker marked with the logo of F.W. Assmann & Söhne, Lüdenscheid, with the belt retaining the bucks’s attachment claws, the buckle measuring 50 mm in diameter, in extremely fine condition.