A Third Reich Rheinland Fire Service Officer's Belt Buckle By Dransfeld & Co. Auction Archive Provenance: Hayward Mar 1973

Provenance: Hayward Mar 1973

two smaller (8cm x 5cm)

Dark patina and bruising on BWM

126 mm x 178 mm)

Yugoslavia (Socialist Republic)

A Third Reich Rheinland Fire Service Officer's Belt Buckle By Dransfeld & Co. Auction Archive Provenance: Hayward Mar 1973In stamped aluminum, reverse marked D&C for Dransfeld & Co. Menden, measuring 49. 7 mm, worn, very 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,