An Unidentified Second War Period German Single Claw Open Leather Buckle Auction Archive Ferdinand in Gold

Ferdinand in Gold

one with a brooch pinback

under the direct command of Commodore (Submarines) Roger Keyes

Jane Millar of Hamilton

Canadian Ordnance Corps Identification Tag taped to the bottom

An Unidentified Second War Period German Single Claw Open Leather Buckle Auction Archive Ferdinand in GoldIn leather wrapped metal, unmarked, measuring 52. 5 mm x 57. 8 mm, 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.