Featured Interesting belt with vintage plastic hand

Hi Everyone! I really like this belt, but this is the first time I see something like this. Does anyone have an idea about it`s age, maker, material and approximate worth? Of course I have my own assumptions (maybe 30s? maybe bakelite? Unfortunately couldn't find anything about "WLB" but maybe just didn't search right). Im really a beginner yet, so any insight from you would appreciated. Vic

 

some hard plastic to take screws like that....

 

Could/would you post a photograph of the entire belt please? Could/would you also post an in focus close-up photograph of the sticker? How wide is it? How long is it? What does the other hardware look like? It appears to be leather. What color? Cordovan? Red?

Debora

 

WLB could be the measures for waist, length and breadth. what's written underneath by hand ?

 

Gloved hand jewellery became popular again in the Retro Era, post-WWII. So maybe this is from that era too.

 

Very interesting!

 

That's exactly what I was thinking. With that industrial-looking chain. Post World War II.

Debora

 

Hi! Thanks for all the answers! Im back with the measurements. Waist is 77cm (around 30-30.5 inches), the hand is is 6.6 x 2.5cm (around 2.6 x 1 inch).
Beneath the belt it is written S41 or maybe 541/941. It is a little blurry now.
It is leather. Color looks like on photo. Im uploading two more pictures.

 

It's suede, isn't it? Red?

Debora

 

I wonder whether it is a strap for something, not a belt for a person's waist. Just looking at the design makes me wonder.

 

Would still like to see the fitting on the back by label. Looks like something is missing. Or perhaps has become unglued?

Debora

 

for school books or such ?

 

Hard to know, but that is a possibility. I really have no idea! The length of it is fairly small, although I don't know whether the measurement given included the chain or not.

 

Looks like a belt to me. Inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli's Fall 1934 Surrealist evening belt.

Debora

 

Good find! So maybe as early as 1930s for the one in original post?

 

To my eye, it's late 1940s or just into the 1950s.

Debora

 

It is dark red, like in photos. And it is suede.