A Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst = Rad) Officer's Brocade Dress Belt With Buckle Hold by Friedländer)

by Friedländer)

with old blue ribbon

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 391 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

(1-N-1490 SEPOY ZAHOOR KAHN

each has an adjustable rectangular buckle with lion heads at either end and sliding metal adjustments

A Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst = Rad) Officer's Brocade Dress Belt With Buckle Hold by Friedländer)Silvered aluminum buckle on the right end, unmarked, illustrating the RAD upward facing shovel insignia surrounded by a wreath of wheat sheaves, the buckle measuring 48. 5 mm. Brocade dress belt in fine aluminum wire with three rows of brown embroidery on the upper, interlaced with white threading, brown wool sides and underside, silvered magnetic metal receiving clip secured by the belt where it wraps around to the reverse and is stitched in place on