2 imperial navy buckles, opinions ....

[p38]

Hello

what's your opinion on these 2 imperial navy buckles please ?

thank you

best

Emmanuel

[klr]

Looks original but I don't actively collect imperial buckles. I do have a brass one but all the Navy EM are much harder to find than officers.


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[90th Light]

Very nice, very rare

One of the rarest Imperial buckles and extremely hard to find for sale or in collections.

And you have got two of them, well done

Chris

p.s. I am also double checking the possibility that the roundels are fake and have been added to original wartime basic Prussian buckles, especially given what has been coming out of Latvia recently. At this stage they look right but the "BAG" guards marking on one of the leather tabs has me puzzled.

They are definitely the correct transition type for 1915 which sits between the brass examples with separately attached nickel roundel and the later one piece stamped steel buckle.

[90th Light]

The more I look at them, the more I like them

Chris

[p38]

thank you

best

Emmanuel

[ww1czechlegion]

Hello Emmanuel,

I believe that they are original. Congratulations on finding two of these rare buckles!

Here's a couple images of my example.

Best Regards,

Alan

[o.r.k.]

Rare indeed- the iron buckles were also used by the Seebattailon on the Western Front (Flanders I believe). The Mesing type were the standard navy and Schutztruppe issue as I know.