DWM 1911 Namibia

lugerholsterrepair · 03-17-2009, 01:57 PM

Piet..Well it was a shot in the dark! The orange color is quite correct. It is thought that the Germans treated the linen thread with mechurichrome to prevent destruction by microbes.

I do not believe buckles were galvanized...many excellent unused surviving late buckles prove to be painted with a high quality oil enamel paint. I suspect early buckles were simply left in plain steel but perhaps you are correct..they could possibly have had a light coating of something like galvanizing. I have never seen them with the kind of galvanizing one would find on nails...
I will have to keep an eye out for this on the many holsters that come into my shop.

Thanks for the report!

Jerry Burney

03-17-2009, 01:57 PM	#15
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,134 Times in 1,439 Posts	Piet..Well it was a shot in the dark! The orange color is quite correct. It is thought that the Germans treated the linen thread with mechurichrome to prevent destruction by microbes. I do not believe buckles were galvanized...many excellent unused surviving late buckles prove to be painted with a high quality oil enamel paint. I suspect early buckles were simply left in plain steel but perhaps you are correct..they could possibly have had a light coating of something like galvanizing. I have never seen them with the kind of galvanizing one would find on nails... I will have to keep an eye out for this on the many holsters that come into my shop. Thanks for the report! Jerry Burney __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."

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