BACKGROUND: The RBA, "Reichsbetriebszellenabteilung" (National-factory-cells-department), was founded in January of 1931 and was renamed the NSBO, "Nationalsozialische Betriebszellen Organization" (National-socialist Industrial-cells Organization), in March of that year. This organization acted as the NSDAP’s alternative to labor unions and communist worker groups in industrial factories. Officially a national organization, the NSBO was concentrated in the heavy industrial centers, with very little representation outside these areas. The NSBO was absorbed into the DAF in October of 1934, and ceased to exist in March of 1935. 

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Thought to be Belgian made variant. Approximately 47mm x 66mm, flat, nickel/silver plated tombac, two-piece construction buckle features, to the obverse, a plain field upon which is face plate featuring an embossed NSBO cog with a hammer an swastika clenched in a fist. Around the outside of the buckle is a dual border. Buckle retains 95% of it original nickel/silver plate. To the reverse is its raised buckle catch and a belt bar. Unmarked. Scarce.

GRADE ***3/4                             PRICE $167.00