Thank you Tony.

I was on a fierce belt buckle hunt a few years back.

The steel buckle came out of Serbia of all places.

Seth

Great belts.  Rich A. in Pa.

Thanks 

Here is a buckle that I can't explain.

Maybe one of you have seen it before.

Looks like a real low budget insurgent buckle.

Looks like a nice shiny plain Soviet export buckle to me....

PLAN combatants.

On 5/13/2021 at 7:11 AM, The Working Dead said:

Here is a buckle that I can't explain.

Maybe one of you have seen it before.

Looks like a real low budget insurgent buckle.

Nice belt, here’s a picture of a Russian Advisor in Maputo Mozambique. (From a Russian vet website) shows the same type of buckle worn by the Russian not  insurgents

very interesting post , thanks to share

 

hughes

3 hours ago, Kia kaha said:

Nice belt, here’s a picture of a Russian Advisor in Maputo Mozambique. (From a Russian vet website) shows the same type of buckle worn by the Russian not  insurgents

This is why I really like this forum.

Thank you Kia Kaha

I believe the first canteen posted on the thread is a Romanian made canteen. Does anyone know if that’s correct? Obviously many eastern bloc countries supplied material to the insurgent groups. 

AKM bayonet, donated by Z.A.P.U. freedom fighter 1978.

Nice piece.  Rich A. in Pa.

On 5/25/2021 at 9:47 AM, Boy Howdy said:

This is why I really like this forum.

Thank you Kia Kaha

4 years later......I think this is an East German belt from the period. I have seen these for sale lately on the web. FYI

This one came from a friend of Wifey's family whom was an ZA Angolan conflict veteran, and for the life of me I can't remember what it is - Police? It was one of his war trophy's.

Hat is from the Venda Defence Force an independent state (Homeland) within South Africa’s borders. Dates to about 1982, nice rarely seen headdress