Germany, Weimar Republic. A Bavaria State Forestry Official’s Service Belt And Buckle Auction Clasp to the Iron Cross

Clasp to the Iron Cross First Class 1939 - In silvered tombac

He qualified as a 2nd Lieutenant RCASC on January 1

Two days later he was posthumously awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class

Knight's Cross with Swords -  Silver gilt with blue

the inscriptions separated by a single oak leaf on either side

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Bavaria State Forestry Official’s Service Belt And Buckle Auction Clasp to the Iron Cross(Bayerischer Frster Koppelschloss und Grtel). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse depicting a rampant Bavarian lion facing left on a raised pebbled dome, surrounded by a full oak wreath with a mobile swastika superimposed on top of the bow holding the wreath together at the bottom of the belt, the reverse plain, with a soldered catch and a standard double claw spring bar assembly, unmarked, measuring 47. 47 mm in diameter. The belt is fabricated