Can it be an original Rodo ???

[Edelweiss]

What do you think ?

Danke sehr.

[Edelweiss]

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[GJR100]

Hi Chris,

As far as I know (but you know I'm no buckle expert ... ), buckles like these were never soldered at the catch. All these are considered fakes/replica where I come from ...

Bart

[Edelweiss]

That's what I tought Bart, even the front seems very bad (lack of details, etc...), but wanted to be sure...

[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Hello,

Your buckle is just a common English fake where all the wrong marking by the catch has been ground off. It is the so called "OLT" fake (the one with SS runes within a diamond).

Best Regards

PS: Why did you think it could be a RODO ?

[Edelweiss]

Well, because I tought it was ; did other manufacturers than Rodo made "such" steel green buckles ?
Sorry if my question appears to be a bit silly...

[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

Yes, of course.
You are right since Rodo is the only maker who had between 1943 and 1945 all his production in SS EM steel Buckles ONLY green painted BUT he is not the only maker to have done such. Assmann had part of his production factory green painted as soon as 1940, and again a large part of his 1943 production.

[Edelweiss]

Thanks for the precisions, Jean-Pierre ; I wasn't aware of that. But are the Assmann buckles as "often" (if I can say) encountered as Rodo's ? The production periods you specified tend to make people think this way, but things are maybe different...

[Jean Pierre Redeuilh]

The green Assmann's produced by 1940 are very scarce to find but the 1943's are somehow not so scarce, but anyway are less often encountered than RODO'S. The explaination could be paint adherence. On the 43 Assmann's the green paint does not stays too well and many Assmann 43 buckles found totally rusted or without any paint left could be some originally green painted. When one finds a RODO, rusted or not, he knows it was a green painted buckle. With an Assmann, even if it could had been a silver or a green one most will think silver. Only datas of production could bring the exact amount of each, but this is something we will never have.

[Edelweiss]

Thanks again, JP. At least, this bad fake helped me to learn much...