Hello fellow belt and buckle collectors...

May I solicit your thoughts or opinion on this SS Officer's Belt?

My question or concern being the belt having a keeper seemingly permanently sewn on both ends. In my opinion, one end should have the tab with holes to slide the buckle on and accommodate the officer's buckle's prongs and the other end as this piece being the keeper where the buckle tab attaches.

This belt curiously has a keeper on both ends.

Any thoughts-opinions?

Thanks much,

John Pepera
peppers1@ameritech.net

Certainly a field modification since size cannot be adjusted. This exact belt was pictured in The Military Advisor in Summer 1995 along with an Emil Jüttner SS buckle. Legend was stating this was captured by a British soldier so the belt was issued as well.

Then, after reading the latest article from Mr.Thayer in the Military Advisor issue of Winter 2016 (article where the box and ALL buckles shown are fakes), I am coming back to this older thread. The marking, if original (I was assuming in the past it could be original solely based on what the author of the article wrote in 1995) shows a belt made for the SS in 1935. By 1935 there was no belt for the SS with aluminum keeper. So, either all the belt is bogus, or the belt was field modified as I previously stated. The Emil Jüttner officer buckle in the article was definitively original.