Description
These flat buttons were used for German uniforms during The First and Second world wars. They were sewn on camouflage blouses, shirts, pants (both cloth and HBT) and overalls of all kinds. In general this button is a classic, it can be used on any clothing.
Diameter 17 mm. Material: steel without any coating, in grease. Original buttons, by the way, were rarely zincated. By the time the buttons started to be made of steel (1940), it was not possible to use expensive zinc for finishing such minor items as buttons. So they just painted buttons in gray. You need to remember that the clothes on front did't live long (as well as soldiers), so rusty buttons were not a problem there.
Historical reference.
Four-hole buttons were used usually on clothes, when three-hole mostly for equipment.
