S.S. "mobile" swastika - REFERENCE POINT

**David North** · 08-09-2014, 09:12 AM

As I am sure that all are aware, there is an interesting discussion within another forum regarding a "turned" swastika SS buckle. I prefer to use the term "mobile" swastika.

We have such a buckle for reference on the WR forum (somewhere) and which I posted many years ago.

Here it is again as a reference point, if say the other forums discussion may have whetted someone's appetite for this quite interesting SS buckle.

Regards and best wishes,

David

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 08-09-2014 09:12 AM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**David North** · 08-09-2014, 09:15 AM

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**KRISSE** · 08-09-2014, 06:18 PM

Never saw one before!

**David North** · 08-09-2014, 07:07 PM

by KRISSE

Never saw one before!

Sadly and may I say, an all too generically familiar response on the WRF and I am now not quite sure as to whether I should laugh or cry.

Regards,

David

**kirby** · 08-09-2014, 08:00 PM

Love to have one and for being a ground dug buckle it is in good condition. I remember one being sold on Manions 8-10 years ago for over $3500. That shows how rare these are.

**KRISSE** · 08-09-2014, 08:06 PM

by David North

Sadly and may I say, an all too generically familiar response on the WRF and I am now not quite sure as to whether I should laugh or cry.

Regards,

David

Well David, don't do both. I just said that I've never saw one before. I didn't say fake or so...

**Gwar** · 08-09-2014, 08:15 PM

David, Any thoughts on the maker based on construction methods you wish to share ??
Thanks...Gwar

**Ben Evans** · 08-14-2014, 07:50 PM

Nice to see it again David, I have been looking through the SS makers thread, I thought the eagle looked a little like a Keller buckle but alas they are different. Looking at the end of the prongs are they similar to the early Overhoff buckles David? Hard to tell from the angle

**David North** · 08-16-2014, 05:00 PM

by KRISSE

Well David, don't do both. I just said that I've never saw one before. I didn't say fake or so...

Dear KRISSE

Please accept my apologies for the boorish, impolite and quite uncalled for response that I rattled off to you. Unacceptable, bad tempered and completely at odds with the spirit of the forum.

Apologies.

Regards and best wishes,

David

**David North** · 08-16-2014, 05:27 PM

Dear Gwar and Ben

As a follow on from post numbers 7 and 8, an interesting question of course as to who the manufacturer may have been. The buckle is rare, although a reasonable number have been documented and I think that they are encountered in essentially two forms, by the composition of the metal. I may be wrong here and also, I think that the design is constant.

Towards who the maker may have been, I really do not know.

Ben is aware that I do not embrace with the same fervour as the more serious collectors, the quest to establish who the maker is/was. It really does not interest me. Having said that, I do not recognise on this buckle, any feature of construction which may correlate to that of a known maker.

Regards,

David