Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Officer’s Brocade Belt and Buckle, by Overhoff & Cie Republic of with horizontal pinbacks and a

with horizontal pinbacks and a stick pin

on a crown loop for suspension from its period original ribbon

marked with the Republic of Austria coat-of-arms in gold-coloured ink on the lid

the red cotton patch sewn in place to the front panel of its thick white cotton base

Footnote: There are two men named John Hunter on the roll of the Naval General Service Medal

Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Officer’s Brocade Belt and Buckle, by Overhoff & Cie Republic of with horizontal pinbacks and a(Waffen SS Paradefeldbinde fr Offiziere). A rare and extremely well preserved Waffen SS Officers belt and buckle set, the former constructed of a reinforced field grey doeskin base, overlaid across the obverse by a silver aluminum wire tresse which bears alternating oak leaf clusters and double Sig runes in machine embroidered impressions, and which is trimmed along both the top and bottom edges with double lengths of black machine embroidered piping,