Hi, this is another one of my German buckles. Can anyone tell me if this would originally have been painted Luftwaffe blue and if JD also made the earlier droop wing eagle buckles ?
Hi, this is another one of my German buckles. Can anyone tell me if this would originally have been painted Luftwaffe blue and if JD also made the earlier droop wing eagle buckles ?
Looks like a very nice buckle to me. I dont think it was originally painted.
I think only steel buckles were factory painted, i suppose alloy ones could have been field painted.
If anyone has got a period painted aluminum Luftwaffe buckle to show I would like to see one.
It seems that JD did make the drooptail variant.
The aluminium buckles were not painted, they came as they are. J.D is the makers mark for J Deutschbein, Euskirchen if you did not know
Ben
Early in the war they had no need to paint anything or use camouflage for the ground crew, they had hardly any opposition in regards to ground troops. That obviously changed in the later stages of the war.
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BTW the J stands for Johannes
Ben
what other makers maker marked the early droop winged buckles ?
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