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    While researching and completing Mike Beaver's recent book on W-SS Insignia and souvenirs, I did a few pages about SS belt buckles. A long time collector sent me a close-up pic of a real early nickel silver SS O&C buckle reverse, with the maker's name spelled out 'Oberhof & Cie'. Usually, I had seen later nickel ones, marked 'O&C' or auminum ones with maker's code number. I was under the impression that O&C never made steel buckles or that if they did, the steel O&C's were absent any maker markings, therefore arguably made by other companies. Just tonight, a fellow former Detroit Police officer, who collects mainly US military items, sent me this image of a buckle his neighbor gave him about 55 years ago, when he was a kid:


    This is the first maker-marked steel O&C SS buckle I've ever seen. So much for my theory that these were non-existent. This forum did make me aware last year, of the nice-looking maker and RZM coded fake O&C steel SS buckles coming out of eastern Europe in recent years.

    #2
    Hi MB,

    your pic seems to show an early NICHEL"Overhoff & Cie ges ge(SPACE)sch" type not a steel one...the only steel marked from this producer 'till today are:

    36/42,

    36/43(rare),

    36/44(rare),

    RZM M4/27(rare).

    Cheers
    Andrea

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      #3
      PS below a list of this producer types:


      OVERHOFF & CIE ges. gesch. LÜDENSCHEID (full MOTTO reverse ampersand) (ni)
      Type 1 left marking
      Type 2 centered marking)
      Type 3 right marking
      O & C ges. gesch. RZM (ni)
      O & C ges. gesch. (ni)
      variant (ni over brass)
      O & C ges. ge (SPACE) sch. (ni)
      upper rear marking variant
      up rear marking variant
      central rear marking variant
      down rear marking variant
      front impressed variant
      front marking variant
      nichel over brass variant
      O & C Ges. gesch. (ni)
      Type 1
      Type 1 nichle over brass
      Type 1 O & C Ges. gesch. DRGM (marked)
      Type 2 (square mark)
      O & C ges. gesch. (FAT EAGLE) (ni) (NOT OVERHOFF!!!)
      O& C ges. gesch. (”name ground off”) (ni)
      RZM 24 (ni)
      RZM 35/36 SS (ni)
      RZM 36/36 SS (ni)
      RZM 36/37 SS (al)
      Type 1 mark near catch
      Type 2 mark under prongs bar
      Type 2 leather police tab variant
      Type 2 green variant
      RZM 36/38 SS (al)
      RZM 36/39 SS (al)
      RZM 36/40 SS (al)
      Type 1
      Type 2 mark variant
      RZM 36/42 SS (steel)
      Type 1
      Type 1 blue gray variant
      Type 2 mark variant
      Type 3 mark variant
      RZM 36/43 SS (steel)
      green variant
      blue gray variant
      RZM 36/44 SS (steel)
      O & C (M4/27 RZM) (steel)
      O & C (late war, unmarked) (steel)
      green variant
      O & C (late war, unmarked) (steel+ni plated)

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        #4
        Thanks for the information

        Wow- I had no idea so many variants existed from one maker.
        more reference books need to be done on the subject of belt buckles.

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