A Baden Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle; Published Example Newly Listed Military Long Service 1st Class

Military Long Service 1st Class Cross for Fifteen Years' Service (bronze gilt

One of the shoes had struck the peg and rebounded

Private Joe Vezgoff remembered one incident:  “We were about a mile forward of the battalion

one with non-magnetic (brass) center

before establishing a place of their own

A Baden Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle; Published Example Newly Listed Military Long Service 1st ClassIn fire gilt brass, with unmarked reverse, measuring 48. 5 mm, lightly worn, extremely fine. This particular buckle is illustrated on page 441 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 brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the