Germany, Third Reich. An SA Enlisted Personnel Belt Buckle, Early “Sunwheel” Swastika Version Archive including Hills 65 and 145

including Hills 65 and 145 and the Mont Forêt Quarries

1946 to air defence artillery and redesignated as the 59th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Lanark and Renfrew Scottish)

the handle grip composed of two piece of pebbled black bakelite secured together with dual magnetic metal rivets

the sash is heavily faded and the badge has been sewn directly to it below the rosette

served with a tank regiment during the war

Germany, Third Reich. An SA Enlisted Personnel Belt Buckle, Early “Sunwheel” Swastika Version Archive including Hills 65 and 145(Sturmabteilung Grtelschnalle). A textbook example of an early version sunwheel swastika SA enlisted personnel belt buckle, constructed of partially silvered brass, the obverse bearing a central raised German national eagle with its wings spread apart clutching a wreathed sunwheel style swastika situated within a ribbed ring bearing oak leaf branches, the eagle head below the lower rope, the reverse with swivel attached claws, two solder points, and a