Germany, Drk. An Officer’s Belt Buckle, Second Pattern consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on blue Kriegsmarine cloth backing

on blue Kriegsmarine cloth backing

on a ladies bow-tied ribbon

he became commander of Infantry Regiment 154 at Wolchow

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Germany, Drk. An Officer’s Belt Buckle, Second Pattern consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on blue Kriegsmarine cloth backing(Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Grtelschnalle fr Offizier). Constructed of aluminum, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross DRK) insignia in the form of a German national eagle overlaid by a mobile swastika and clutching a Geneva Cross, the reverse with a clip and loop, unmarked, measuring 50 mm in diameter, in near extremely fine