A German State Forestry Official's Aiguillette

Cord is fabricated from forest green embroidery interlaced with with a gold-coloured aluminum wire, divided into three sections: the first section has a cord braided into multiple rows of loops, a thin loop attached to the end of the braided portion, the second section has a shorter looped cord with a braided sliding adjustment knot and a loop at its end, the third section has a long looped cord, with all three cords joined at five positions within a 20 mm x 34 mm forest green wool patch and slotted in the centre for placement around a button on the shoulder. Extremely fine.

Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolia’s book “Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich”, published in 2001.