Germany. A Brown Forestry Belt With Single Open Claw Buckle

Single prong open-claw buckle in magnetic steel with a brown painted finish on the right end, unmarked, the buckle measuring 40.8 mm x 57.5 mm. Belt with a smooth finished brown upper, with a green felt underside, unmarked, belt passes through the bar of the buckle, finishing on the reverse and is stitched in place, six rows of two holes each for length adjustment on the left end, belt with two sliders that have matching uppers, the wider slider with a D-ring stitched in place at the bottom, the belt measuring 44 mm x 1,070 mm. Buckle exhibiting brown paint loss on the prong where it contacts the roll bar and belt, light crazing on the belt's upper, extensive mothing evident on the felt underside. Better than very 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.