April 6, 20251 yr #1 After many years of searching I found this brass, Soviet made Cuban belt buckle. I would love to find another but I'm happy with this one. It looks like it's been through a war or two. It will only take a leather belt.
April 6, 20251 yr #2 Very nice, did they only come in this style or are there brass FAR and sterile buckles as well? Scott
April 7, 20251 yr Author #3 As FAR as I know, (pun intended) the sterile buckles came in brass and steel, I have both. All of the FAR buckles I have and have seen are steel. As far as this buckle, it looks like I got skunked. When I went to clean it up a bit more all the "brass" came off. So, I am still looking for a SOLID BRASS Cuban belt buckle. wat, wat, waaaah.......
April 7, 20251 yr #4 10 hours ago, Boy Howdy said: As FAR as I know, (pun intended) the sterile buckles came in brass and steel, I have both. All of the FAR buckles I have and have seen are steel. As far as this buckle, it looks like I got skunked. When I went to clean it up a bit more all the "brass" came off. So, I am still looking for a SOLID BRASS Cuban belt buckle. wat, wat, waaaah....... 🙁 mikie
April 11, 20251 yr Author #6 OK, maybe I didn't get as skunked as I thought. When I look closer at this buckle it MAY be zinc plated brass. I can see where the zinc is wearing on the high spots and where what appears to be brass peaking through. So, now I need the one and only world's best expert on Soviet Russian buckles to tell me if such a beast exist. LOL I can only imagine that a zinc plated brass CUBAN buckle is not your run of the mill buckle.🤞 (fingers crossed) I believe I read on a Russian forum that they used to brass plate steel buckles so who knows what they were experimenting with to fight wear and corrosion??
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