Heer Schmidt & Co & Paulmann & Crone

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Hi guys, had some new buckles in today to add to the Heer collective. First up a nice aluminium buckle by the maker Schmidt & Co. First time I have ever heard of this maker, buckle cost me a bit over price but it had to go into the collective. If anyone has any info on this maker could you please let me know. I cannot find any ref to this maker in all the M numbers whether buckle maker or tinnie maker. Buckle is unmarked, tab is marked Schmidt & Co K G Schwelm and dated 1937

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Rear

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Tab

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Second one is a nice Paulmann & Crone buckle in aluminium. Nice not so often seen maker with the early Crone makers mark This one was found for me by meine sehr gut freund Guido, vielen dank Guido

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Crone rear

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Crone makers

[musketeer]

Hi guys, had some new buckles in today to add to the Heer collective. First up a nice aluminium buckle by the maker Schmidt & Co. First time I have ever heard of this maker, buckle cost me a bit over price but it had to go into the collective. If anyone has any info on this maker could you please let me know. I cannot find any ref to this maker in all the M numbers whether buckle maker or tinnie maker. Buckle is unmarked, tab is marked Schmidt & Co K G Schwelm and dated 1937

What a wonderful buckle..I've also never heard before about this maker....wonderful.

[musketeer]

@regiment 739
what do you think about my ground dug buckle ?
I've found it one year ago in a German POW Camp
Could it be the same one as your Schmidt buckle ?

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the backside
Please compare with your buckle and tell me your opinion.

[sscrooge]

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ben another couple of nice buckles to your collection you will soon have enough for a book on heer buckles,,

[regiment739]

Hi Musketeer, they are alike arnt they

[Guido L.]

Hi Ben,

wish you a lot of fun with the PuC buckle!!

Wow!! Schmidt - that is a rare maker!! Congrats to you nice find.
That is one of the kicks in our hobby, to find new unknown makers. Super!

But when I had seen the buckle without tab, I would swear the maker is Dransfeld & Co. in Menden. The indistinct reverse side is a feature that I only have seen on Dransfeld buckles until now. The obverse side shows also many commonalities with the Dransfeld buckle.
I hold a Dransfeld Heer in rather the same condition, but I have unfortunately no pics at the moment. I will post them later for comparison, so you can see what I mean.

Regards,
Guido

[musketeer]

Yes..Guido, that had also been my first thought..it must be a Dransfeld Buckle..maybe that Schmidt bought buckles from Dransfeld and Mr. Schmidt was a kind of retailer not a maker...

I've a lot of this buckles in my collection. unfortunately unmarked and without a leather-tab but I'm sure that are buckles made by Dransfeld with the typically backside and the two strokes between the words Gott and Mit.

[Guido L.]

Yes Ingo, the design from Dransfeld buckles is quite distinct, especially on the back side.

I also assume that Dransfeld must be the supplier in this case. The Schmidt firm maybe have worked rather as a saddler than a buckle maker.

Regards,
Guido

[Guido L.]

Finally the promised pictures from my Dransfeld Heer buckle!

Regards,
Guido