Post Your Favorite Buckles

[romeo-1]

There have been a lot of great buckles found over the years...and some real beauties this past season. Post up your favs.

I'll start...

Early French buckle

 

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[timekiller]

I've got some that are older,but with the work I did to get this one back in order & the work that was put in it back in the day.I like it as my best I think. This explains why.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,389472.msg2770947.html#msg2770947
Take Care,
Pete,

 

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[steelheadwill]

I've got some that are older,but with the work I did to get this one back in order & the work that was put in it back in the day.I like it as my best I think. This explains why.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,389472.msg2770947.html#msg2770947
Take Care,
Pete,

WoW
After reading your OP, and seeing that crusted clump, all I can say is
What a great Resto ! stunning work on bringing that piece back to life.
Great stuff as usual Pete
Here's a recent find of mine

 

[wstgo]

these are all my favorites

 

[steelheadwill]

these are all my favorites

Nice Collection and display work!

 

[wstgo]

Thank you very much

 

[steelheadwill]

Thank you very much. my wife put it together for me

Nice to have a little help with the hobby, digging and posting are all i seem to find time for
gotta put this recently found oldie up too

 

[wstgo]

nice buckle, how did you clean it? I have never cleaned any of my finds for fear of damaging them

 

[creskol]

Not the greatest photos in the world, but this is my favorite buckle

 

[creskol]

My 2nd favorite buckle

 

[wstgo]

Creskol

nice archer on horseback buckle! where did you find that?

 

[creskol]

Creskol

nice archer on horseback buckle! where did you find that?

Found it years ago at an old house site in western Maryland

 

[steelheadwill]

nice buckle, how did you clean it? I have never cleaned any of my finds for fear of damaging them

greetings wstgo,
no cleaning for these, as dug from salt mud/sand
freshwater soak to leach out salt/
the more I learn, the less I clean

 

[sscindercoop]

My favorites

 

[wstgo]

sscindercoop,
very very nice collection of buckles when i first started hunting i would find buckles and consider them junk because i didn't know any better. Since then when i do find one i do the dance of joy

 

[TN_MD]

Wow nice finds everyone, did not realize so many folks lost there buckels !

 

[Aquila]

Russian soldiers WW1 buckle, dropped during Finnish civil war 1918

 

[worldtalker]

1720-1790 Georgian Shoe buckle. God Bless HH Chris

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Here's a few of mine

The one in the last pic is my favorite - c1680.

 

[Don in SJ]

Wow Bill, perhaps the best collection of early colonial buckles found in US that I have seen, and yes that last buckle is a killer find!

Don

 

[Iron Patch]

Seeing those buckles the first thing that comes to mind is all the people who often state just how difficult it is to find a Colonial copper in their area... and I believe it's the truth because I hunt quite old sites and have never dug one of the early buckles in the first picture.