A German Army Officer’s Brocade Belt And Buckle; Named

Belt is fabricated with a fine aluminum wire interlaced with white threading on the upper, incorporating two rows of forest green embroidery, the edges and reverse in green wool, two sliders with matching uppers and reverses to that of the belt, the right end finishing in a point with a hook that faces a single row of nine holes for length adjustment, die-stamped silvered aluminum buckle affixed to the right end, the buckle illustrating an eagle standing upon a swastika and surrounded by a full wreath of oak leaves, marked in black ink "Haubenreisser" on the reverse and "90" on the clip, the buckle measuring 49.5 mm, an aluminum receiving clip on the left end, the belt measuring 45 mm x 1,050 mm, light contact marks on the reverse of the buckle, scattered wear patches on the belt's reverse, 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.