This is a scruffy example of a DAK web belt. These belts were developed in webbing for service in the Mediterranean and North Africa. It replaced the leather belt, which was deemed inappropriate for service in hot countries.

This relatively uncommon die-struck steel example has a blue-grey finish to the front, suggesting possible navy use, with a field-grey finish to the reverse. A nickel version of this buckle (for parade and walking out) is occasionally found with a field-grey finish.

A broken example of a fairly rare German railway official's buckle, missing its female portion. There is no maker mark and it is a mid-war production from zinc. Commissioned railway officers wore these, the railways being under quasi-military control in the Third Reich period.

This is the first issue pattern one-piece army buckle of the Third Reich, replacing the two-piece example. In turn it was replaced by the next model in pressed steel, as an economy measure to preserve precious aluminium. It is of injection-mould construction, and is marked on the Wiederhalt (tag) for Jul. Kremp of Ludenscheid and dated 1939.

This is the classic other ranks buckle of WW1, introduced into the Turkish Army at the turn of the century and almost certainly made in Germany for export, along with all the other ordnance material that Turkey bought from about 1890 onwards, when Germany and Austria replaced Britain and France as their arms suppliers.