A Third Reich Free State Of Hesse Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Auction Archive and joined the Royal Marines

and joined the Royal Marines as a Private on 27 December 1895

one month shy of his forty-fourth birthday

hallmarked with the Reichsmark crescent moon and crown and maker marked Emil Hermann

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Coronation Medal 1937

A Third Reich Free State Of Hesse Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Auction Archive and joined the Royal Marines(Freistaat Hessen): In silver bronze, unmarked reverse, measuring 48. 5 mm, lightly worn, extremely fine. 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 buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolias book Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich,