A German Private Band Member - Officer's Belt With Buckle; Published Example

In brass fire gilt with full laurel leaves wreath with crossed ribbon at the base; silver lyre affixed to centre; measuring 45mm, reverse is stamped Germany ("indicative of a period piece intended for post war export" page 554 of Angolia's publication); as originally paired with brown leather belt measuring 114.5 cm x 4.5 cm in width, leather is flexible, very fine overall.

Footnote: These white belts where also used by the SS LAH for parade and honor guards. Most have not survived as they were used after the war till they were discarded. 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.