RUHR Zippers...any way to guess the age ?

[ukali1066]

Anyone ? Baron Kurtz perhaps ?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Ask Bellytank!

If you're talking about the Rurh zippers on the jacket in the thread close to the top of the list, I have a late 40s jacket that has those. But they could have been using them for a long time. Check for DRP, DBP, BCWrN, Germany, West Germany etc etc stamped anywhere on the zipper. This info could be useful in dating.

bk

 

[BellyTank]

Off topic but

I recently bought a NOS vintage German (civilian)Rucksack with a "DRP" stamped next to the company branding.

We remember... DRP is Deutches Reichspatent, as opposed to DBP,
Deutsches Bundes Patent. DBGM is Deutsches Bundes Gebrauchsmuster, registered trademark type thing... don't we.

I wouldn't know how to "precisely" date any German zips apart from comparing wit known wartime articles, etc. and the above fact/oids


B
T

 

[Baron Kurtz]

One problem with German kit being that the country, and the companies in it, were in no position to jettison goods, let's say a zipper, in the late 40s or afterwards simply because it had DRP stamped on it. Affluent they were not.

So wartime and pre-war manufactured goods would conceivably appear on much later garments/bags etc, murkying the waters still further.

bk

 

[ukali1066]

Cheers guys...when I get the jacket back in my hands I'll fully examine the zip pulls for other markings