State Forestry Buckles

[pryagin]

Many thank s Kirby . The very thing . In addition to your selection .

[yellow12]

Hello,

here in addition my :

Silver withe anodize


Black/grey anodize


And my prussian Fire Gild ST.& L.

[Kurt D]

Hi all

Here's a Württemberg without swastika.

@ Kirby: Re the "Westfahlen", I find the attribution (not the buckle itself, which is of course fine) problematic as Westphahlen at the time was a Prussian province. Forestry officials located in the province would have worn the Prussian buckle.

Kind regards
Kurt

[kirby]

Thanks for the nice additions to the thread.

Kurt I don't know about the Westfalen design vs Prussian. I am just going by Angolias book.

[kirby]

Pulling up this old thread to add my new Lower Saxony State Forestry officials buckle. I wish I had fond a fire guilded example but this is a rare one.

[Kurt D]

Hi Kirby

A super buckle. This is Braunschweig (Brunswick). Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) was only formed in 1946 out of the former states of Brundwick, Oldenburg and Schaumburg-Lippe, and the former Prussian province of Hanover. Attached is my buckle. This came out of a group containing some decorations and forestry buttons from the time of the Dukedom of Brunswick (pre-1919).

Kind regards
Kurt

[kirby]

Thanks for posting your nice buckle. What should the proper name for this design. The ?????State Forestry Service. Lower Saxony wouldn't be accurate if it didn't form till 1946.

[Kurt D]

Land Brauschweig (state of Brunswick) forestry service. The Duchy of Brunswick was restyled a free state (Freistaat) in 1919 and the Nazis changed the designation to Land (state) in 1933.

[Gunny Hartmann]

Great looking buckles!....

[Wewelsburg]

Glad you like the buckles. There Doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in round buckles except for SS. The Hessen and Baden type I was the first round buckle in my collection. I missed out on a gold one at the SOS. Kirby

I think that the interest is there, but this buckles are so hard to find so people never have the chance to talk about them

Thank you for showing this awesome items