Political Leader's Brocade Dress Belt with Buckle

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Feldbinde Goldfarben Gewick. Buckle in gilt die-stamped aluminum on the right end, illustrating an eagle with its head facing to its left, clenching a wreathed swastika in its talons, backed by a full-wreath of oak leaves, marked with the RZM (Reichszeugmeisterei) insignia and maker marked "M4/24" (Friedrich Linden, Lüdenscheid) on the reverse, the buckle measuring 50.5 mm. Upper of the belt fabricated from a machine-woven gold-coloured threading, with a row of brown embroidered piping running along the length of the belt at the top and bottom near the edge, the sides and underside in dark brown velvet, leather tab with a smooth finished reddish-brown upper stitched in place on the underside at the right end, the tab with seven rows of two holes each for length adjustment, emboss stamped "125" on the tip, with paper tag printed in light blue ink and glued to the end of the tab, gilt aluminum receiving clip is secured in place where the belt folds over and is stitched in place on the reverse, two sliders with matching uppers and reverses to that of the belt, the one slider with a dark brown velvet tab. The belt shows period wear and a few frays