Germany, Forestry. A Prussian State Forestry Officer’s Belt Buckle Auction Archive Footnote: Private Thomas Reid

Footnote: Private Thomas Reid

group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W

BAILLIE 47th REGIMENT

32 mm x 39

11 mm x 49

Germany, Forestry. A Prussian State Forestry Officer’s Belt Buckle Auction Archive Footnote: Private Thomas Reid(Reichsforstbeamten Koppelschloss). Constructed of silvered bronze; a round buckle, with a Prussian style eagle on a raised pebbled field wielding a sword in one claw, and lightning bolts in the other within a thick laurel wreath with berries and a ribbon at the six oclock position; the reverse hollow; an unmarked example; measuring 46 mm in diameter; with nearly all of its original silver finish present; in better than very fine condition.