Next pictures are the recto verso of the scarce “Deutschen Mannschaft in Rumanien” buckle.
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Like the previous Croatian buckle, this is not a “classic” SS buckle but can be associated with the SS or the SA.
I know, a few people are only agreeing to call SS buckles the “PURE”
Arian German SS buckles with classic motto and inset but personally I make a subdivision of all the foreign Allgemeine SS and collaboration buckles as most of them where supervised by the SS, used the same uniforms and runes or where later integrated in it anyway.
(For those who remember, I have a Flemish “lion” collaboration buckle found together with a SS officer buckle, ID tag, personal belongings in a helmet that was dug up in former E. Germany.)
As for the “Gau Essen” buckle, I mentioned this buckle only as it falls into the category of buckles that are absolutely original but where close to nothing is know about.
The term “SS Gau Essen” is only a term used by the collectors to designate this buckle. Pesonaly I also have doupts this buckle is "Pure" SS and have never said I was "Pure" SS! I belive firmly it is SS related! I have my own theory on these buckles as I found evidence they where around during the pre war period. A friend and myself bought the complete estate of a SS officer last year and a “Gau Essen” buckle was found together with other buckles, lots of documents, picture albums, cloth, uniforms, caps, ect…. This does indeed not make this buckle a proven “SS buckle” but at one point there was something going on in the Gau Essen with the Police, the SA and the SS together……… As for the commercial move…. If this buckle ends up one day to be attributed to the SA, Police, or any other organisation than the SS, the value will not change, as there are only so much of them. Assmann only had a few boxes of them after the war and that is it. There will never be enough of them to satisfy all collectors, especially if proven on day to be from a specific organisation…
Marc
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></O>Like the previous Croatian buckle, this is not a “classic” SS buckle but can be associated with the SS or the SA.
I know, a few people are only agreeing to call SS buckles the “PURE”
Arian German SS buckles with classic motto and inset but personally I make a subdivision of all the foreign Allgemeine SS and collaboration buckles as most of them where supervised by the SS, used the same uniforms and runes or where later integrated in it anyway. (For those who remember, I have a Flemish “lion” collaboration buckle found together with a SS officer buckle, ID tag, personal belongings in a helmet that was dug up in former E. Germany.)
As for the “Gau Essen” buckle, I mentioned this buckle only as it falls into the category of buckles that are absolutely original but where close to nothing is know about.
The term “SS Gau Essen” is only a term used by the collectors to designate this buckle. Pesonaly I also have doupts this buckle is "Pure" SS and have never said I was "Pure" SS! I belive firmly it is SS related! I have my own theory on these buckles as I found evidence they where around during the pre war period. A friend and myself bought the complete estate of a SS officer last year and a “Gau Essen” buckle was found together with other buckles, lots of documents, picture albums, cloth, uniforms, caps, ect…. This does indeed not make this buckle a proven “SS buckle” but at one point there was something going on in the Gau Essen with the Police, the SA and the SS together……… As for the commercial move…. If this buckle ends up one day to be attributed to the SA, Police, or any other organisation than the SS, the value will not change, as there are only so much of them. Assmann only had a few boxes of them after the war and that is it. There will never be enough of them to satisfy all collectors, especially if proven on day to be from a specific organisation…
Marc
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