A German Police General’s Buckle With 1St Pattern Brocade Dress Belt

Buckle in fire gilded aluminum, 49.00mm, with highly polished highlights, marked on reverse “D.R.G.M.”, in slightly worn condition, with small gilding loss to reverse of buckle due to wear, extremely fine condition; with 1st pattern Police Officer’s brocade belt (effective January 11, 1937), 46mm high, constructed of interwoven aluminum flat wire, with two 5mm wide broken black stipes at the top and the bottom, and with broken central 4mm wide red stripe (the slides are of identical pattern); with blue wool backing on reverse, brown leather tongue, and complete with gilded hardware; an excellent example in slightly worn condition.

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.