Imperial German Buckles.

**DUJAILAH** · 06-03-2011, 10:02 PM

I can only think it was a production mistake. It wouldn't make it very comfortable to wear!!

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 06-03-2011 10:02 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**CCMJR** · 06-04-2011, 07:45 PM

Regarding the "Finnish" buckle in post #352, the catch is a well-known reproduction type.

Chip

**maxrsx** · 06-05-2011, 12:38 AM

if you have not seen such buckles it doesn't mean that it forgery. links to such reproduction or photo such buckles

**jagdhorn** · 06-05-2011, 01:05 AM

The Finnish buckle catch- it looks to me to be the "C" type catch, which I think of as being earlier than the "brdge" type catch in German buckle styles. What did I miss that makes it a common fake?
I know my three or four finnish army buckles have a VERY different type catch, more of a "crank" shape. but, I am not sure that a "c" would be out of the range of possiblities. What I can't see is the prongs, on my computer, which is not a great detailed screen, they look like a modern cut. But, this may be jsut my old eyes!
jagdhorn But, saying that, if I had a chance to get this buckle, I would.

**CCMJR** · 06-05-2011, 04:52 AM

The prongs are sliced off with some cutting device. The angle of the cut prongs is the same on all of these buckles. I haven't seen this medallion on this type of buckle, but I have seen the catch many times.

Chip

**maxrsx** · 06-05-2011, 08:58 AM

I bought it in scandinavia on the medallion emblem of the city turku.I guess maybe made handicraft during the short Finnish civil war 1917. Therefore deficiencies in manufacturing. i would like to see an image of similar buckles.

**StuG III** · 06-06-2011, 02:51 PM

Richard, the buckle arrived today and you can clearly see the line where the ears had been bent. Someone decided to straighten them at some stage, maybe a masochist.

Tom