SS buckle, opinions needed

[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Indeed for some.

[John T]

JP...It would be great if you did a book with this info that went also into the good vs the fake as the information needs to be centralized with the good repros out there and with newer generations of repros appearing.

[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

JP...It would be great if you did a book with this info that went also into the good vs the fake as the information needs to be centralized with the good repros out there and with newer generations of repros appearing.

I do not think it would be a great idea to publish a book dealing with latest fakes. It will be provinding to fakers the last needed tool to produce something perfect, and I do not want to be liable for such error. As a matter of fact, even if I am still providing many information "How to ...", I no longer post everything at once. Information are split in several thread, so less chance to teach a potential unscrupulous person how to change what he needs in one single reading.
But anyhow, still collector's best tool is to know perfectly originals. Fakes are going to improve no matter what but they are going to keep differences. Originals will ever tell you a difference if you really pay attention. So, maybe, one day we will end up buying only what is 100% matching to the slimest detail what we know is a granted original. So many will start to label even original variants as "fake" but I cannot condemn people to play safe since I never did.

Regarding originals, I guess I already brought to readers many things during those last 5/6 years. Browsing my own Yahoo group, this forum or the GDC one, a collector can have access to more information regarding SS buckles than he will be able to find in any book, or their cumulative. And it is 100% free! I guess if I was able to give so many of my time, someone looking for the already provided information should be also able to spend few hours to seek it. But I do not plan to write book(s). The last try was too emotionaly painful. But I do not plan to leave my work here. I still have several things to reveal and maybe a dedicated website could be in the next future

[John T]

JP...you have many valid points. I just feel that the fakes of SS buckles have become so prolific and we hear about collectors being ripped off every day--while the purveyors of this crap become wealthy-- that it would be fantastic if we had some central resource to keep up with the newer and older generations of fakes. As the way it is now you have to go to all places on the web to find information. At any rate I do suppose if somebody were really interested they could research the info on the web and put it into some sort of binder for use as needed by that person.

John

[David North]

Ric

Just to move away a tad from the madly exciting and knee trembling inducing world of the SS-Koppelschloß.

Thankyou for posting images of your SHD and in my opinion, a really super and ultra rare buckle, infrequently seen.

The high quality cast fakes proliferate and as I know to my cost.

Attached is a photo merge of our buckles and as I am sure that all will agree, as different as "chalk and cheese".

Regards,

David

[David North]

A post script.

Note the traces of silver grey paint on Ric's SHD.

Regards,

David

[David North]

Hens teeth !

The one that I have becomes worse by the minute.

An obverse (detail) comparison.

Regards,

David

[Ric Ferrari]

Ric

Just to move away a tad from the madly exciting and knee trembling inducing world of the SS-Koppelschloß.

Thankyou for posting images of your SHD and in my opinion, a really super and ultra rare buckle, infrequently seen.

The high quality cast fakes proliferate and as I know to my cost.

Attached is a photo merge of our buckles and as I am sure that all will agree, as different as "chalk and cheese".

Regards,

David

Hi David,

happy you appreciated my pics (and of course the subject): IMO all the German belt buckles are madly exciting and knee trembling inducing, even though I consider fascinating the Nazi ones.

Regards

Ric