A Mint Rad (National Labour Service) Leader’s Belt Buckle Auction Archive Ebony-coloured wooden handle is chipped

Ebony-coloured wooden handle is chipped where it meets the lower crossguard and has experienced crazing around the SS insignia and chipping on both sides where it butts the upper crossguard

and 1914-1918 Croix de Guerre with two stars representing mentions in dispatches

dated 1944 on reverse

chipping and repair evident on the red glass cabochons

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A Mint Rad (National Labour Service) Leader’s Belt Buckle Auction Archive Ebony-coloured wooden handle is chippedThis is a RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst National Labour Service) leaders belt buckle; in aluminum with a matte silver aluminum finish; the obverse with a standard RAD motif consisting of a spade with a mobile swastika superimposed in the centre, surrounded by five stalks of wheat along the edge of the buckle; the reverse with a standard double claw prongs and catch accompanied by a receiver; measuring 48 mm in diameter; mint condition.