A Weimar Republic Era Army Belt Buckle By Overhoff & Cie Auction Archive to form a new service

to form a new service (the first of its kind in the world)

taken in a studio setting

In bronze grade

in a letter written a few days later

A Weimar Republic Era Army Belt Buckle By Overhoff & Cie Auction Archive to form a new serviceBuckle in stamped nickel plate, with leather tab marked Overhoff & Cie, and dated 1935, indicating wear into Third Reich era; the reverse is stamped 2. M. G. B. 211. (illustrated in Angolias book, p. 66). 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;