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This is a very special buckle.? Not only is it early, being made of solid nickel, but it also retains almost 100% of the factory over-coating that these buckles were produced with.? This over-coating almost never survives, mostly because SS members would polish off the coating in order to keep their buckle looking shiny and new-looking.? In the USMC we did the same thing.? When we received a new buckle, we would polish off the protective coating so that scratches did not develop in the finish.? For every 100 "raw" nickel buckle you see, you may see 4 or 5 in this state of preservation.

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