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Battlefield Recovered 1000 Stitch Belt


Fortunes Of War
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Fortunes Of War

Here is a 1000 stitch belt that was definitely there!  The large red kanji characters across the front are knotted with red cotton threads and say, "Distinguished Service".  There is a Japanese national flag or hinomaru stitched on the left-hand side.  This belt appears to never have had any tie strings (many did not), even though the right-hand side appears to have been prepped for one.  

 

 

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Very nice piece Mr. Bortner. It looks as though it may be blood or burns on the material. It seems to have definitely been there. I hope that the owner of this belt survived to return back to his homeland. War is terrible and so many on the different sides lost their lives it’s a sad reality of battle. 

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