A German Army Officer's Brocade Dress Belt

Brocade dress belt in fine aluminum wire and two rows of forest green embroidery on the upper, interlaced with white threading, moss green cotton sides and underside, silvered aluminum receiving clip on the left end, thick butterscotch-coloured leather tab stitched in place on the underside on the right end, the tab with a pebbled upper along with nine rows of two holes each for length adjustment, emboss stamped "86" above a discoloured "105" on the tip of the tab, two sliders on the belt with matching uppers, one with a moss green cotton tab attached, the belt measuring 44 mm x 975 mm. Numerous holes in the aluminum wire on the upper and on the cotton underside, mothing evident on the underside of the cotton tab attached to the slider. 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.