A German Butcher's Trade Belt Buckle GTRexclude Kandahar (Sepoy Manolhar Thapa 5th

Kandahar (Sepoy Manolhar Thapa 5th Goorkha Reg) Naming is officially engraved in inverted script

palm with cypher of Albert I on the original ribbon

september 1942

and France: WWI Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 (bronze

A German Butcher's Trade Belt Buckle GTRexclude Kandahar (Sepoy Manolhar Thapa 5thIn stamped bronze, unmarked reverse, measuring 36. 5 mm x 53. 2 mm, well worn, 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 Angolias book Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, published in 2001.