SS Enlisted Men Makers Thread

[Ben Evans]

Hi guys, as with the M4 list I would like to start a SS buckle makers list. I do not collect SS buckles and only have a couple of pictures of buckles I used to own, so all you SS collectors out there get posting pics of your buckles and get the names crossed off the list
List has been updated, many thanks to Andreas and JP for the list

OVERHOFF & CIE Full title Nickel makers mark near wing
OVERHOFF & CIE Full title Nickel maker mark away from wing
OVERHOFF & CIE Full title Nickel erased motto
Early Overhoff is known unmarked O & C ges gesch RZM (Overhoff, nickel, RZM marked variant)
Nickel Hammer Head with "U" catch
Fat Eagle 2 pattern
Fat Eagle
O & C ges gesch, Nickel by Overhoff
O & Cie ges ge sch, Nickel by Overhoffl)
O & Cie Ges gesch Nickel by Overhoff with Capital G
O & Cie Ges gesch Nickel by Overhoff with Capital G (square lettering)
ges gesch (Overhoff, nickel,”name ground off” marking variant)
O & C Ges gesch. DRGM Nickel by Overhoff
RZM 24 Nickel by Overhoff
RZM 35/36 Nickel by Overhoff
RZM 36/36 Nickel by Overhoff
RZM 36/37 Aluminium by Overhoff markings under postsleeve
RZM 36/38 Aluminium by Overhoff
RZM 36/39 Aluminium by Overhoff
RZM Aluminium 36/40 by Overhoff single ring around SS
RZM Aluminium 36/40 by Overhoff double ring around SS
RZM 36/42 Steel by Overhoff
RZM 36/42 Steel by Overhoff
RZM 36/42 Steel by Overhoff
RZM 36/43 Steel by Overhoff
RZM 36/44 Steel by Overhoffl
Late war steel unmarked Overhoff
Steel marked Ges Gesch
Steel M4/27 marked - Overhoff
Rotated Swastika (nickel variant unmarked) Two makers
RZM 63 Nickel by Steinhauer & Luck
RZM 57 Marked 57 RZM SS ( M Winter)
RZM 57 marked 57 RZM SS ges gesch ( M Winter)
257 Christian Theodore Dicke - Only for officer known
Friedrich Keller Nickel unmarked
Gau Essen Nothing allows to believe the Gau Essen ever been a buckle for the SS
“Big Eagle prototipe”
Unmarked Injection molded flat back by RS&S
822/37 RS&S Aluminium markings near catch
822/37 RS&S Aluminium
822/38 Aluminium by RS&S big lettering
822/38 Aluminium by RS&S small lettering
822/38 Aluminium by RS&S small lettering no rope at catch
822/42 Zinc by RS&S
822/42 Zinc by RS&S unmarked
Giesse & Schmidt, Ruhla
Rudolf Fischer, Nixdorf (nickel, early umarked)
155/36 RZM – O & Cie (nichel, marked variant) Made by Assmann. 2 variants. Variant without RZM/SS contract is more common.
155/39 Aluminium by Assmann marked near catch
155/39 Aluminium by Assmann
155/40 Aluminium by Assmann
155/40 Steel by Assmann marked near catch
155/40 Steel by Assmann marked under prong bar
155/40 Steel by Assmann crank catch
155/43 Steel by Assmann marking under roller bar
155/43 Steel by Assmann
JFS Steel marked
JFS Steel unmarked
RODO Combat green
RODO Blue rope under beak
GZM M1/131 Marked M1/131 Gzm
GZM M1/131 No markings
Plain back late war variant
Haunstein & Kirchhof, Leipzig
RZM 36 Berge & Nolte
Cracked Wing Nickel marked
Cracked Wing Nickel umarked
Cracked Wing Nickel Ges Gesch
Nickel "no ears" unknown maker
Nickel unknown marked Ges Gesch
Unknown and unmarked with brass catch and prongs

[Ben Evans]

Steel late war SS buckle by Overhoff & Cie

[Ben Evans]

Nickel SS buckle by Overhoff & Cie

[Ben Evans]

Aluminium SS buckle by RZM 36/38 Overhoff & Cie

Pictures courtesy of Guido Lew collection

[Ben Evans]

Nickel SS buckle by RZM 57 M Winter

Pictures courtesy of Guido Lew collection

[Adrian Stevenson]

Aluminium SS buckle by Assmann marked 155/40

Pictures courtesy of Ade Stevenson collection.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Aluminium SS buckle marked 822/38

Pictures courtesy of Ade Stevenson collection

[Ben Evans]

Steel SS buckle by Assmann marked 155/43 (type 2)

Pictures courtesy of Dave Holbrook collection

[Pascal BERNHARD]

Hi,
here with a "Paul Meybauer, Berlin" buckle

[Pascal BERNHARD]

an Assmann more