Original German WWII SS EM/NCO Painted Steel Waist Belt Buckle - Unmarked - Schutzstaffel Japanese Helmets Most of Schuyler’s purchases appear

Most of Schuyler’s purchases appear to have been made directly from Lefaucheux in Paris

Introduced to compete with Colt's own Single Action Army

because the filter plug softens the sharpness of the tobacco

The finish/color is “smooth gray-green” or "field-grau"

Original German WWII SS EM/NCO Painted Steel Waist Belt Buckle - Unmarked - Schutzstaffel Japanese Helmets Most of Schuyler’s purchases appearOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice WWII German Schutzstaffel (SS) EM NCO's Steel Belt Buckle (Koppelschlo) with an aluminized paint job. It is embossed with a high relief, embossed, central motif pattern consisting of an SS style national eagle with out stretched wings, clutching a wreath, encompassing a static swas. The swas and wreath are in turn encompassed by a circular, simulated, twisted rope border with the Gothic script