A Steyr Home Guard (Freikorps Heimwehr Steiermark) Belt Buckle; Published Example GTRexclude with the poem inscribed below

with the poem inscribed below in Old-English type: "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses

from its smallest beginnings to its current status

Type V (1892-1918) (silvered bronze

engraved "Dem

A Steyr Home Guard (Freikorps Heimwehr Steiermark) Belt Buckle; Published Example GTRexclude with the poem inscribed belowIn stamped silver nickel with silver nickel centre plae affixed by 3 prongs, unmarked reverse, measuring 48 mm x 64 mm, better than extremely fine. This particular buckle is illustrated on page 391 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, Revised Edition" by John R. Angolia and came from his personal collection. Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts