SS Cufflinks

[Robin Lumsden]

Why not these?

The SS held the patent for the design of the runes.

Commercial companies could not make them willy-nilly.

Any item bearing the runes had to be made under an SS contract.

[Robin Lumsden]

Hermann Historica Munich in the upcoming auction 59, has just posted on their online catalog an identical pair of SS cufflinks in the Waffen SS section under #8291, with a reserve of 500 Euros.

It'll be interesting to see what they fetch.

[all1knew]

Hello there,

This button looks a lot like these:

http://wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/s...d.php?t=418425

William Kramer

[John Pen.]

Any item bearing the runes had to be made under an SS contract.

No wonder they didn't put their makers mark on them!!!

[Gaspare]

Robin, not willy-nilly but,, I understand the problem with the SS runes but pre war black enamel SS rune rings were sold thru out Germany/Austria and they were sold from commercial retail jewelry outlets with only cash needed.

I believe there was once a topic here that showed a period listing for SS cufflinks so some sort of SS cufflink had to be sold for those that wanted them.

[Robin Lumsden]

I believe there was once a topic here that showed a period listing for SS cufflinks...............

I think these appeared on a Himmler presentation birthday list................among the books, swords, Allach porcelain, etc. etc. that Himmler presented to his pals on their birthdays.

Unfortunately, the design of the 'official' presentation cufflinks remains unknown.

[Gary Symonds]

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[Gary Symonds]

I doubt that there was an "official" pair of cufflinks. I have posted from the "Gahr" book, pictures of the 800, hallmarked cufflinks made by Gahr. These are very different than the one's that I have previously posted. In the Cook and Bender book, the tuxedo buttons are identical to the bottons posted by another member and are identical to the cufflinks I have posted. It is obvious that the Gahr cufflinks would have been far more expensive, being in silver and hallmarked. However, I doubt that the use of the Gahr items would have been mandatory, since no cufflinks would have had to have been approved by the RZM.
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[all1knew]

Hello there,

Do they show the reverse of any of the tuxedo buttons in the text?

William Kramer