SS Buckles to collect: The ultimate list

[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

R.Sieper
RZM 822/38 SS (Large Numbers - Type 2)



Pictures and buckle are mine. This mint buckle is also still available
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

R.Sieper
RZM 822/38 SS (Small Numbers / Thick ring around SS - Type 3)

This is the last variant of this marking. With my latest codification I named it Type 3.

Pictures are still mine but I sold this mint buckle to Jean-Pierre G. (France)
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

R.Sieper
Unmarked Injection Molded (also called Alu Flat Back)

Even if this buckle does not have any marking it was for sure made by Richard Sieper. When? Probably just before the introduction of belt buckles made from steel for the SS. Probably this was a rejected concept due to either not strong enough for military use, or one of the metal content used for his production was no longer allowed to use for the manufacture of belt buckles.

It is to note that stating these buckles were made from aluminum is somehow false. It is indeed a mix of different lightweight metals but totally different than the one used for the manufacture of regular aluminum SS buckles.

Pictures are still mine but I sold this buckle to Ric, Moderator of the WAF Forum
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Overhoff
RZM 36/37 SS (Marking by Catch)

Another extremely rare buckle made this time by Overhoff. Why was the marking in front of the catch rather than below the post sleeve assembly? All the following production from this maker, including the already rare others made during the same year, have their marking under their post sleeve, except that one.

Pictures and buckle are mine. Buckle still available to sale to the specialized collector.
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Overhoff
RZM 36/37 SS (Regular marking under post sleeve)

Here is the classic marking of Overhoff SS EM buckles for the year of 1937

Pictures are mine but I sold this buckle to advanced collector Dan D. (USA) - KC1 in this forum
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Overhoff
RZM 36/38 SS (Regular marking under post sleeve)

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Pictures of this mint buckle are mine but I sold this buckle last week to Slawomir M. (Poland)
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Overhoff
RZM 36/39 SS (Regular marking under post sleeve)

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Pictures of this buckle are mine but I sold this buckle to Cyril de LF. (France)
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Overhoff
RZM 36/40 SS (Type 1 One ring around SS - Regular marking under post sleeve)
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This is a much scarcer variant than the one with two rings around the SS runes that I will post later.

Pictures are mine. Buckle still available for sale
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[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Overhoff
RZM 36/40 SS (Type 2 Two rings around SS - Regular marking under post sleeve)

This is the classical 36/40, the one fakers cast the most. Here is your chance to observe a stone mint original example to later compare it to the fake you will probably buy.

Pictures are mine but I sold this buckle to Harry K. (The Netherlands)
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