A Mint Drk (German Red Cross) Enlisted Man’s Belt Buckle Auction culminating in a disastrous Daily

culminating in a disastrous Daily Telegraph interview that cost him most of his power in 1908

Generals Orders No

bronze wash mostly gone otherwise good very fine

In January 1943 he was promoted Leutnant

all braided into an ornate knot with a silvered aluminum shield depicting a national eagle perched atop a mobile swastika

A Mint Drk (German Red Cross) Enlisted Man’s Belt Buckle Auction culminating in a disastrous DailyA mint example of a DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz German Red Cross) Enlisted Mans belt buckle; in cast aluminum with a gunpowder grey finish; the obverse with a pebbled field featuring an eagle perched atop a Red Cross, with a mobile swastika on its chest, surrounded by an oval open ended laurel wreath; the reverse with standard double claw prongs and integrated catch; maker marked OCL for Overhoff & Cie, Ldenscheid and Ges. Gesch. on the reverse;