December 2021 Auction
Lot 875:
Sold for: $300
Description
SS EM/NCOs BELT Buckle (Koppelschloss)
It is believed that Adolf Hitler personally designed a new pattern box belt buckle specifically for wear by SS EM/NCO personnel with the manufacturing patent being originally granted to the Overhoff & Cie. firm in Lüdenscheid.
This new style buckle was adopted for wear by EM/NCO personnel in late 1931 or early 1932.
Generally the early buckles were produced in solid nickel/silver until sometime in 1936 when aluminum alloys replaced the nickel/silver versions.
In 1940 the EM/NCO’s belt buckles began to be manufactured in steel replacing the aluminum alloy buckles.
Stamped steel construction, standard pattern, box buckle. The obverse of the buckle features a smooth outer field with a high relief, embossed central motif consisting of an SS style national eagle with out-stretched wings, clutching a wreath encompassing a static swastika.
The swastika and wreath are in turn encompassed by a circular simulated twisted rope border with Gothic script motto, " Meine Ehre heißt Treue!", (My Honour is Loyalty!).
The script is situated on a subtly textured background field and is encircled by the inner and an outer simulated twisted rope borders. The reverse of the buckle is a mirror image of the obverse and has the brazed buckle catch, prong bar and prongs all intact.
Unmarked.
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