WW1 officers belt???

[heimaut]

I have serious doubts. Cordially

[Bobby lee]

Hi Chip, thanks for the repsonse, do you happen to have a copy of the journal?

Best,

Bob

[Chip M]

Bobby,
Yes, I do have all the issues that contain the three part belt buckle article.

Heimaut,

What are you implying about the rivets? I got out my two M95 versions (Prussian and Bavarian) and the rivets on them look similar to these. How about some explanation?

Chip

[Tony & Kaiser]

Heimaut,What are you implying about the rivets?

I have complete faith in mine; I am the first collector to own it. The rivets on mine seem more rounded, but they are still rivets. How else would the clasp be held on?

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[Kurt Doench]

Hi all,

Here is my Prussian Telegraphen buckle. The buckle box looks very much like the Navy/Schutztruppen one shown earlier. Still difficult to say whether that one's original. Clever fakers used to take common roundels off original buckles and replace them with faked rare ones. When done well, it's pretty impossible to detect a doctored buckle visually. The faked roundels were mostly made of copper and silver-coated by the galvanoplastic method (as copper has a very high conductivity). If one scratches the roundel's surface and red appears, this would be an alarm signal. Original roundels may be solid Neusilber or silver-coated brass, but never copper. I can imagine Navy/Schutztruppen, Württemberg and Saxon Telegraphen buckles, but certainly no Saxon 107/108 ones. These regiments did not have their own Telegraphens sections.

Regards,

Karl

[Kurt Doench]

And the reverse side: