I must admit that any buckle with a soldered split pin puts me on guard.
This one is almost too good to be true.
I think that it is original, or rather should I say, not a fake.
The roundel to my knowledge is not as yet copied, although it is only a matter of time. It is sometimes perhaps forgotten that Der Stahlhelm was a perfectly legal post 1945 organisation.
I rarely visit the auction sites now and I never saw this buckle. I wish that I had though.
The buckle does not look like a "fake" to me. Whether the buckle was made in the 1920's or the 1950's, is any persons guess. It does display some 1920's era characteristics though.
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