Germany, State Forestry Service. A Hesse/Baden Forestry Service Official’s Service Belt Hold Royal Artillery at Dartrie (Dartry)

Royal Artillery at Dartrie (Dartry) Lodge

circa 1890-1900

7 mm die-stamped feinzink badge displaying the Wehrmacht eagle above a left-facing rising tank

pleasing patina and appears mostly unworn

dark green and blue enamels

Germany, State Forestry Service. A Hesse/Baden Forestry Service Official’s Service Belt Hold Royal Artillery at Dartrie (Dartry)(Hesse Baden Frster Koppelschloss und Grtel). Constructed of gilt bronze, the obverse depicting a national eagle with open wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons on a raised pebbled dome, surrounded by a full oak wreath tied together at the base of the belt buckle, the reverse hollow, with a soldered catch and a standard double claw spring bar assembly, unmarked, measuring 49. 90 mm in diameter. The belt is fabricated of thick