A Ss Em/Nco’s Standard Issue Belt Buckle By Overhoff & Cie Of Lüdenscheid Auction The Department of Indian Affairs

The Department of Indian Affairs seemed convinced that the Native people were best left as subsistence harvesters and saw no justification for any systematic attempt to restructure their lives

with hole for attachment - currently with remnants of the original attachment string

All constructed of aluminum

Lüdenscheid” manufacture

the belt measuring 38 mm x 930 mm

A Ss Em/Nco’s Standard Issue Belt Buckle By Overhoff & Cie Of Lüdenscheid Auction The Department of Indian AffairsA textbook example of an EM NCOs standard issue belt buckle; stamped nickel silver; the obverse with a standard SS motif consisting of a national eagle with spread wings, clutching a static swastika in its talons, and the SS motto Meine Ehre heit Treue in raised lettering surrounding the wreathed swastika between two ropes; the reverse with standard double claw prongs and a soldered on catch; maker marked Overhoff & Cie, Ldenscheid, Ges. Gesch. on the