A Thüringen Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Archive Triangular white cotton patch sewn

Triangular white cotton patch sewn upon a red cotton armband

reverse illustrating a soldier

" they must have a process of building and development of twenty-five years or more

He retired from the Army in December 1918

1917 and invalided to England

A Thüringen Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Archive Triangular white cotton patch sewnIn cast silvered brass, with unmarked reverse, measuring 48. 3 mm, 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 2001.