German Heer Buckle 1941 Ludenscheid

[PmMeYourCats]

Got this in a trade about two weeks ago. The leather is still good and it's in pretty good condition with well over 90% of the paint still being on the steel.

[Lenny]

Ludenscheid is just the area where the majority of the buckle manufacturers were based, so it's not a maker mark.

[PmMeYourCats]

Cheers mate, it's numbered EP41 or ER41? Not an expert but you're the buckle fetishist!

[lach470]

Nice looking rig. Any pics of the back of the buckle? That always helps. The maker mark could be ESL (Ernst Schneider)? Does that sound right? 

[Lenny]

It will be Ernst Schneider as i remembr @BryanDavidson showing it on FB, was marked on tab. 

[PmMeYourCats]

Cool beans man, thought that the tab may have been replaced.

[Lenny]

From memory it looked more like a Police/fire tab to me, was stained black, but no extra wide ears on the tab..but hey ho... I'd definetly looks like it.

[PmMeYourCats]

I think it's been dyed with shoe polish or something. It's a little weird.

[Lenny]

20 minutes ago, BryanDavidson said:

I think it's been dyed with shoe polish or something. It's a little weird.

 

No, they dyed them back then...

[PmMeYourCats]

Hah thanks mate. Next purchase is a few books.