A Third Reich Westfalen Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Newly Listed Roma on reverse cartouche

Roma on reverse cartouche

The eagle in the grip has a pleasing tone

as a very determined SS officer named Captain Schmidt identified him as an allied airman and attempted several times to try to have him released into the custody of the German Wehrmacht

on a roadside near a school in the Cemetery at Portel

A Third Reich Westfalen Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Newly Listed Roma on reverse cartoucheIn toned brass, with unmarked reverse, measuring 48. 2 mm, lightly worn, 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 Angolias book Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, published in