Germany, Rad. A Reich Labour Service Leader’s Belt Buckle by Assmann visually-hidden Catalpa Plot

Catalpa Plot

His medical examination had been performed on October 5

faintly maker marked “L/54” (Schauerte & Hohfeld

that his religion was Methodist and that his trade was that of Moulder

surface rust on the hinge

Germany, Rad. A Reich Labour Service Leader’s Belt Buckle by Assmann visually-hidden Catalpa Plot(Reichsarbeitsdienst Leiter Grtelschnalle). Of three piece aluminum construction, the obverse bearing a raised Reich Labour Service (RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head overlaid by a mobile swastika, set within a circular wheat stalk wreath, the reverse with a clip and belt loop, marked A for Assmann & Shne, as well as DRGM and 37 for the issue date of 1937, measuring 47 mm in diameter, in extremely fine condition.