After posting my "Souvenir Belt" I did some research and I found that this was a custom going back to the WWI.
But this kind of trench art had a morbid side... Originally the soldier would take one of the tunic buttons from each enemy
soldier he killed and add it to his leather belt. I doubt that mine was made in that way, Steven (the veteran) told me he stole this stuff in some Nazi office in Berlin in 1945. But we never know...
Link here.
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