A 1Ss Panzer Division Leibstandarte Ah Belt 1937 By A. Fischer Berlin

Belt is fabricated from a thick leather with a smooth finished dark brown upper with a black stain causing distinctive streaks, smooth finished brown underside, silvered aluminum receiving clip on the left end, a tab with a smooth finished brown upper stitched in place on the underside of the belt, the tab with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment, emboss stamped "100" on the underside of the belt near the termination point of the tab, additional narrower non-blackened upper wraps around to the reverse at the right end and extends a further 80 mm, with the maker's emboss stamp "A. FISCHER BERLIN C.2", dated "1937" and marked "L." with the SS Runes and "A.H." (Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler), the belt without sliders and measuring 43 mm x 1,003 mm. Wear evident near the right end on the upper, the underside and tab exhibiting crazing, along with soiling and semblances of dried mold. 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.