A Black Leather German Army Belt 1942; R.z.f.h.7

Belt is fabricated from a very thick leather with a smooth finished black upper, smooth finished butterscotch-coloured underside, a tab stitched in place on the underside with a smooth finished brown upper on the right end, the tab with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment, emboss stamped "95" on the underside of the belt at the tip near the end of the tab, magnetic metal receiving clip painted in field green on the left end, the clip secured by the strap where it wraps around to the reverse and is stitched in place, emboss stamped "R.Z.f. H.7" and dated stamped "1942" on the termination point of the strap, the belt measuring 43 mm x 1,120 mm. Very light crazing and wear evident on both sides of the belt, light crazing on the leather tab, scattered paint wear on the receiving clip. Near extremely 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.