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...fully marked on the front!
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...fully marked on the front!
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Overhoff & Cie
O&C Ges.gesch. DRGM
This is, I personally believe, the first marking used by Overhoff in 1931. Most "reference" books are saying this was the full motto but I do not agree (the date of 1927 was already a non sense). I rather tend to believe the full motto was the latest, not the first, before Overhoff stamped his SS buckles with RZM/SS markings.
Note the additional DRGM, not stamped but engraved as part of the male die, under the oak leaves crown.
Pictures and buckle are mine
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Overhoff & Cie
O&C Ges.gesch Type 1
Looking at the marking of the above buckle and reading my above comments it should not surprise anybody I named the following/this buckle as "Type 1"...
Pictures and buckle are mine. Buckle still available for sale.
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Overhoff & Cie
O&C Ges.gesch Type 2
Type 2 has square fonts. Between Type 1 and Type 2 the latest is the hardest to find.
Pictures are still mine but buckle was sold to Harry K. in the Netherlands
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Overhoff & Cie
OVERHOFF & CIE / LÜDENSCHEID GES.GESCH.
This is the one called by some either "Full motto Overhoff", "Full name" or anything else with the same meaning. For the discriminating collector this marking exist in three main variants:
Centered, Left positioned and also grounded off. I am posting now the first two and will post the third one later as part as "Ground off Overrhoff's"
Please note reversed "&". We still do not know anything about it.
Pictures are still mine. Buckle was sold to Alessandro O. in Italy
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CENTERED MARKING.
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Buckle still available for sale
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LEFT POSITIONED MARKING
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Overhoff & Cie
O&C ges.gesch.
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Pictures are mine but buckle was sold to Cyril d.L.F. (France)
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Overhoff & Cie
O&C ges.ge sch.
This is the most common marking of any Overhoff serie made in nickel silver. This is also the most common nickel silver SS buckle a collector can find.
This example is absolutely mint in its un-worn / un-issued condition. Front has its full layer of dull silver grey finish as stipulated by early SS regulations.
This buckle is still available for sale
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Overhoff & Cie
Ground off Overhoff’s
This includes ANY early nickel silver SS buckles made by the Overhoff firm having erased (grounded off) their original company's name to prevent such buckles been seized by the SS authority (probably in late 1935 / early 1936)
Here are some examples
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Offered for sale in 2006 by "The Collector's Guild"
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Pictures and buckles of this one belonged to member Ivanjoaquin (Spain) when posted in 2014 (probably still in his property)
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