Luftwaffe buckles have I done any better on these please.

**Ralph** · 11-20-2010, 04:52 PM

Hi
some more buckles I have, your opinions would be gratefully accepted again. Third time lucky maybe ?.
Cheers.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 11-20-2010 04:52 PM

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**Ben Evans** · 11-20-2010, 05:07 PM

Ralph, sorry mate buckle one bad fake, buckle two JC maedicke never made a crank catch buckle and the last one pics are bad but Assmann & Sohne which is on the leather tab never put their date in the middle of the oval, so all in all mate all fake!!!!

**Ben Evans** · 11-20-2010, 05:18 PM

Just having a good look to make sure that the aluminium Lufte buckle is not an original crank catch Assmann buckle with a Maedicke tab sewn on, remember anything past 40 should be steel not aluminium, mean while have a look at this website, just shows how good fakes are getting!

BELTS

BTW I am trying to find the site where these alu 1st pattern are being sold

**lach470** · 11-21-2010, 03:07 PM

I have some 1st pattern lufties I could put up for the sake of comparison (on my other computer).

Rob

**kirby** · 11-21-2010, 04:09 PM

I think the second buckle has a good chance. Here is an example I have owned for over thirty years.

**lach470** · 11-21-2010, 04:22 PM

The top spot weld on the belt catch is quite similar. Not sure about the tab though.....

Rob

**Ben Evans** · 11-21-2010, 04:24 PM

by kirby

I think the second buckle has a good chance. Here is an example I have owned for over thirty years.

Thanks Kirby, the Maedicke tab must have been sewn on at some point which I thought possible, I know they never did a crank catch buckle. The third buckle still has a chance if there were better pictures, but I know its not a Assmann buckle like it says on the tab, because they are fake tabs

**kirby** · 11-21-2010, 05:03 PM

I think Ralph should remove the tab and he will have a nice buckle. The tab looks original and can bring decent money from someone with an original buckle from this company.

There is a buckle from this company on the Collectors Guild. The buckle is unmarked but you can see the style of eagle and the type of catch.

**wuppergold** · 11-25-2010, 10:40 AM

The reverse of the Lw/Alu from Kirby have a higher quality and better stamping. I don´t like the another buckle from Ralph, the stamping of the reverse are awfully bad
Best,
Sascha