Crank catch Droop tail with leather makers tab: Need help on this one

[maximus71]

Need help with this one, crank style catch, tab is marked but hard to read, awunbuch nache? 1935, I read that Cristian Theodor Dicke was the primary maker of this type catch? If this isnt the right place to post this you can move it since Im not sure.Thanks

[Ben Evans]

Moved it for you into the main Luft thread, with the pebbled rear I would say this is an Assmann buckle with a crank catch like that, is it nickel?

[maximus71]

It is very light, I believe aluminum, not sure.

[zwerge]

The stamp reads...A. WUNDERLICH NACHFOLGER....Fabrik fur Heeres,Polizei und Feuerwehr-Ausrustungen, Berlin und Neukolln, Finowstrasse....1892-1945, also used code jba.

[Ben Evans]

That would be the leather maker, they did not make the buckle

[zorreke]

That would be the leather maker, they did not make the buckle

Like Ben has mentioned, the markings on the leather for this kind of buckle mostly refer to the leather maker and not to the buckle maker.
IMO there were diffrent makers for the crank catch.
Assmann was one of them and this one, like Ben has told, could be an Assmann.
Cordial regards

Rudi

[zwerge]

I thought Maximus71 might like to know what the stamp was,I never said that was who made the buckle.

[zorreke]

You're right of course.
I've only confirmed Ben's theory.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Here is mine: the maker of the leather tab is "Max Koberstein, Landsberg / Warth 1935"

Clearly the manufacturers were selling the buckles to leather work makers who then retailed the finished product.

Cheers, Ade.

[Adrian Stevenson]

I have my buckle is front of me now. It is clearly made from a DIFFERENT die. Just look at the eagles wing feather detail.

I think we need to examine these crank catch buckles in more detail. Clearly there is more than one maker at work here.

Interesting.....

Cheers, Ade.