Its me again, the guy in charge of a film production team full of people who have NO idea about history, WWII or militeria, but inherited a huge collection of military related items from our predecessors at this studio.
The people on this forum have been so helpful to identify some of these items!
So i have another item that I found in the container full of WWII German things left from the film about German Army zombies.
I know 99% of everything German for sale now is fake, but I always wandered about this item.
According to the label, its not fake. Apparently it was worn by somebody in the German military and after 1945 they were so pissed that the war ended that they continued to wear it on their belt for years, until they were really old in the mid 2000s. I guess they wore a jacket or something so it wasn't visible.
I think its definitely true that somebody wore this item for years. There are two big craters in the aluminum where the belt spikes hit the frame. The piece of metal where the belt connected is about 1/2 the thickness it should be, from where i guess two metal claws held it? And the front face of the item is completely abraded away.
I think it would be difficult to replicate this kind of damage on an item, and for something as low value as a belt buckle it would not be cost-effective to fake. I think
Somebody genuinely did wear this for a long time.
But what do you think of the item? What even is it? What did the writing originally say? What about the numbers on the back?
Real or fake?
Any opinions?
