Germany, State Forestry Service. A Hesse/Baden Forestry Service Official’s Service Belt Newly Listed but with the lower prong

but with the lower prong bent out of shape

In silver and Gilt cap badge

conquering the heavily defended machine gun nests and taking 200 captive

enamel coating fully intact

an extremely rare badge

Germany, State Forestry Service. A Hesse/Baden Forestry Service Official’s Service Belt Newly Listed but with the lower prong(Hesse Baden Frster Koppelschloss und Grtel). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse depicting a national eagle with open wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons on a raised pebbled dome, surrounded by a full oak wreath tied together at the base of the belt buckle, the reverse hollow, with a soldered catch and a standard double claw spring bar assembly, unmarked, measuring 48. 81 mm in diameter. The belt is fabricated of thick