German Pebbled Button Controversy
Many people get very confused over these buttons. There were actually 3 sizes early in the War and after the War with the Bundeswehr. There was a smaller, 17mm used for shoulderboards and a larger 21mm used for some overcoats. However, I have rarely seen the 17mm's and 21mm's used on any Wartime uniforms other than some tailor-made officer tunics and private purchase, leather and Allgemeine SS overcoats. The 19mm was used universally on all uniforms. Tunics, Overcoats, Parkas, Anoraks, Fligerblusen, SS Smocks etc, etc. Yes, these were absolutely, 110% correct for wear with the shoulderboards. I have never, ever encountered an EM combat tunic using anything but these. The only variations were the colors (some painted, some plain) and some SS uniforms having solid backs on them instead of dished. That's it.
Exact (and we mean EXACT) reproduction of the pebbled 19mm shank buttons used on Tunics, Greatcoats, Parkas, Smocks and numerous other uniforms. These are made like originals, not like past reproductions with soldered shanks that break. Maker marks copied from originals. These are the correct color for early war uniforms and overcoats. You will have a hell of a time trying to tell that they aren't real.
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Wire ring made to secure pebbled shank buttons to German HBT and Tropical tunics (through the cloth eyelets). Exact reproduction.
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Exact repro of the hollow-back 12mm buttons for use on M42 & M43 field caps. Silver finish only.
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Exact copies of the glass and urea (plastic) buttons used on all manner of German uniforms. These are the same buttons we have been putting on our Panzer uniforms, caps, and jump smocks... now we have enough to offer for sale separately.
Available in blue-gray or black.
- 15mm: For M43 caps, shirts, jacket cuffs and collar binds.
- 19mm: For trousers suspender attachments, Panzer and Assault gun tunics, etc.
- 21mm: For parkas, jump smocks, Panzer tunics, etc.
| Availability: Blue 21mm Sold Out No Restock planned. |
Price: $1.00 each or 20 for $15.00 Quantity Discounts: 100+ @ $.50 ea. |
4-hole dished, green-painted steel, original
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These are exact copies of the 4-hole dished steel buttons for German trousers.
Large button measures 17mm In Stock
Small button measures 14mm.
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1" claw buckle used on the adjustment belts on nearly all types of WWII German trousers. These are exact copies patterned from an original.
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1 3/4" used on the HBT web belts in DAK, M1944 wool trousers, and Heer Panzer Trousers. Originals are impossible to find, and ours are indistinguishable. Olive finish, correct for DAK and M1944 trousers. For Panzer trousers simply spray paint them black. Sorry, we currently have no source for the HBT belt webbing.
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New buckles, nickel finish, very similar to the slides used on WWII German trousers. This style appeared later in the War and was used alternately with the 2-Claw type above. In other words, some late war unifoms used these, some used the other. There was no particular meaning to which was used (i.e.; one was not used just for "Ess-Ess" and another for "Fallshemyager" or any such nonsense).
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