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Early nickel Postschutz (Postal Protection Service). The Postal Protection Service which was introduced in 1933, wore a standard box buckle with a stylized eagle bearing the German Postal horn and with the wording "postschutz" in script below. The field is pebbled and the buckle was initially produced in nickel or nickel plated brass. No maker mark. NFS

If anyone wants to see what a master modeller can do , try looking at youtube , type in Rojas Bazan, then scroll through his models, completely hand made, no pre made parts, everything made from metal, engineered by him in 1/15th scale, These are the finest models I have ever seen, detail is,nt the word, and I think you will be amazed at this mans skill, if I could model half as well as this I could make a decent living at it. He gets commissions from all over the world

Yep,i think you need to upgrade

What sort do you have?

A two piece Police aluminum parade buckle which I believe to be a Fire Police buckle due to the blackened finish. Note the thinner arms of the swastika This is the thinnest of three swastika designs I have found on police buckles. I believe this is the least common of three types. No visible maker marks. Photo 1 and 2 are of the subject buckle. Photo 3 show Subject buckle, Buckle with the middle thickness swastika, Buckle with thickest swastika bottom. Photo 4 show the back of the Middle thickness swastika, Thickest swastika bottom. NFS

Bloody hell Rats! Even i did it via those instructions Lenny gave,and im a Luddite on computers.

The head looks funny. The center is riveted as can be seen by the distortion of the box around the rivet. From Peter Nash's book "Belt Buckles 1845-1945", page 119. "This is an important point in the recognition of early fake two-piece Heer and Luftwaffe buckles, many of which are wrongly made with rivets. And referenced as a fake in "German Belt Buckles 1919-1945" by Thomas Reid and John J Nauer, page 85. “Very well produced in aluminum, but with one rivet attaching the inset instead of the proper four tabs.” I don’t know of any original single rivet EM buckles. D.R.G.M. (Deutsches Reichsgebrauchsmuster) means it is a registered design in Germany. It was introduced in 1891 and actually in use up to 1952 when it was changed to D.B.G.M. (Deutsches Bundesgebrauchsmuster). There is no doubt this buckle is a post war fake.

Hi Dave, we've already discussed the fact that unlike on FB the interest is frightening lacking in just about any subforumhere!Even if I've been knowing Rojas for a dozen years now, thank you for bringing his amazing skills to the attention of those who may have never heard of him!Working with metal is VERY difficult,I've had the chance to see many of his masterpieces and some are better than the others and the one I like most is the F4U Corsair...I think it was on his site! Best Manu

Making metal models must be one of the hardest forms to do, especially to that level, the amount of research and then the engineering alone must take him months, plus he must have the patience of a saint. I would,nt worry about the models we do, theres absolutely no comparison and I dont think I would even bother trying

Just had a look at his website page.... he's a bit good isn't he. Very impressive, I don't think I will bother making anymore models after that.