A German National Forestry Service Official's Belt Buckle By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Auction Archive One Document to the Iron

One Document to the Iron Cross 2nd Class to Gefreiten Albert Ströhl of the 21st Schwere Fallschirm Werferabteilung on the 18th of October 1944

pages from the London Gazette and Forty Niner magazine (the official publication of the 49th Battalion

the pouch designed with a weather protective flap with tab and when released from the brass post on its front and lifted up

this cufftitle was sewn to uniform with green cotton thread (still attached to cufftitle

A German National Forestry Service Official's Belt Buckle By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Auction Archive One Document to the Ironn stamped aluminum, maker marked with a stylized "A" (F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid) on the reverse, measuring 50 mm x 54. 5 mm, extremely fine. A similar buckle is illustrated on page 519 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, Revised Edition" by John R. Angolia and came from his personal collection. Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and